Quotes about Loss
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
— Victor Hugo
There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
— Alexander Hamilton
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
— Anne Lamott
No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
— Ernest Hemingway
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
— Mae West
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
— Mark Twain
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
— Publilius Syrus
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
— Jon Bon Jovi
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
— Isabel Allende
Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
— John Lennon
What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.
— James Allen