Quotes About Loss

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

In any war, people will pay the price.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

The war has ruined us for everything.

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they thus lost they have never got back.

War what is it good for? It's good for business.

He has lost his left arm, but I my right.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.

War is not won by victory.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

It is not a war. It is murder.

War will make corpses of us all.

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.