Quotes About Loss

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

More die in flight than in battle.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together - these men, these horses, these colors afield.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

I know the horrors of war: no gains can compensate for the losses it brings.

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.