Quotes About Loss

Boys are the cash of war.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel war. The other is to claim to understand what is behind each murder.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Once you have been tortured, you can never belong in this world. There is no place that ever be your home.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.