Quotes about Loss

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

Two names on the page, his and hers, side by side. Two in a bed, lovers no longer but foes.

we also first beheld Unveiled the summit of Mont Blanc, and grieved To have a soulless image on the eye That had usurped upon a living thought That never more could be.

And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?…

I was going to rise, do some typing and coffee drinking in the kitchen all day since at that time work, work was my dominant thought, not love- not the pain which impels me to write this even while I don't want to, the pain which won't be eased by writing of this but heightened, but which will be redeemed, and if only it were a dignified pain and could be placed somewhere other than this black gutter of shame and loss and noisemaking folly in the night... /The Subterraneans

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

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

Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.