Quotes about Loss

the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.

Under the influence of a world which no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, which had robbed man of his will and had made him an object to be exterminated (having planned, however, to make full use of him first—to the last ounce of his physical resources)—under this influence the personal ego finally suffered a loss of values.

Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then—our friends are not able to finish their stories.

There was an embrace in death.

We have destroyed something by our presence, a world perhaps.

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a -- I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him -- I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

He has gone to the demnition bowwows.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.