loss Quotes

“I’ve lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:war loss

“The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:loss

“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

topic:pain loss

“What gamblers usually regret above all is less the loss of their money than of their foolish hopes.”

― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

topic:hope loss

“To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

topic:love loss

“there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

topic:books loss

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

topic:love loss

“Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. MEMORY. Memory becomes...”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven

topic:love memory loss

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time”

― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

topic:time grief loss

“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:friendship loss

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