Quotes About Loss

The casualty of war is our disappearing humanity.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

We often participate in a war only to lose our hearts and to gain a few pieces of land.

They Served...reliving memoriesthat will not diegiving their allfor you and I -friends takenlives shaken...

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

They won the war but lost the peace,

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Victory is always bittersweet.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

That's war. It won't let anyone get away unscathed. I'm sorry about Grete."Verner aka 'Jens'in the novel 'the Informer' by Steen Langstrup

It's too bad war makes peopledisappear like chess pieces, and that prisonsturn prisoners into movie endings.

I have suffered a loss, Forrest, far greater than my legs. It's my spirit, my soul, if you will. There is only a blank there now - medals where my soul used to be.

Truth is the first casualty of war.

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.