Quotes About Loss

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man's soul.

Nobody returned alive from the war.

No war is ever a war without the loss of a life of a solider

The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".

The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan

I am tired of the sickening sight of the battlefield with its mangled corpses & poor suffering wounded. Victory has no charms for men when purchased at such cost.

War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.

War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.

Your daughter, your sister. She is salt to the sea,

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.

We were still young enough to remember the cubist architecture of the piles of corpses we had seen during the war.

She loves him sobut he didn't stay.The wind can't blowthis storm away.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement.

"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

War limits the deads. It limits them to the cimetery ... (La guerre limite les morts. - Les limite au cimetière...)

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.