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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war ... suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own. — Philip Caputo

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war. — Edward Gibbon

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was impossible as the other. — Kristin Hannah

Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder. — Madeline Miller

It was a tragic end to a heroic life. — Chris Kyle

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother — Anna Freud

He was hers and she was his and they had found each other across centuries of bloodshed and loss, across oceans and kingdoms and war. — Sarah J. Maas

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B.H. Liddell Hart

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another. — Shaun David Hutchinson

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain. — Randal Cremer

War is not just a victory or loss ... People die. — Maya Lin

All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. — David Starr Jordan

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

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

As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss. — Albert Bushnell Hart

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning. — John McPhee

If a single person dies, the battle has been lost. — Marty Rubin

Honor Lost

Ambulant sunshine pierced
the soot covered glass ~
the feeble man wandered by
in this ritual morning pass ... — Muse

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. — Charles Caleb Colton

That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain. — Brent Weeks

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln. — Warren Adler

There is no question but that when one is engaged militarily that there are going to be unintended loss of life. — Donald Rumsfeld

...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it. — John Clellon Holmes

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit. — Michael Ondaatje

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide. — Douglas MacArthur

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield. — Jocelyn Murray

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it. — Chris Womersley

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy. — Sun Bin

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost. — Anne Fortier

You know, sometimes I wish they would do this for us when we come home alive. — Jim Sheeler

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come. — Boris Trajkovski

Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides. — Aleksandra Layland

I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it grows back? — Jim Sheeler

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss. — Sun Tzu

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand. — Simon Armitage

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

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins. — Brock Chisholm

Our losses ... have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses. — Karl Donitz

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. — Kristina McMorris

War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them. — Laura Thalassa

Price of peace could only be valued by
people who had suffered loss in the war. — Toba Beta

Our losses ... have reached and intolerable level. — Karl Donitz

The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post. — Leonid Andreyev

I won the vote but shunned the soft parade
[ ... ]
I won every battle and lost the war
(Geronimo) — Shannon McNally

Regrettable was the gallantry of great men who risked themselves for others. — Michelle Franklin

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. — Niccolo Machiavelli