"The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg."

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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Loss, Wife, Change, Life

"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Loss, Truth, Wisdom, Love, Life

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Loss, History, War, Sensitivity

"If you haven't already, you will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and you never completely get over the loss of a deeply beloved person. But this is also good news. The person lives forever, in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through, and you learn to dance with the banged-up heart."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Loss, Heart, Love, Dance

"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Loss, Memory, Grief, Spirit, Sorrow

"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Loss, Memory, Innocence, Childhood

"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Loss, Memory, Forgetfulness, Pain

"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

Loss, Uncertainty, Change, Future

"May be you are gone,but that doesn't make me come back."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Loss, Grief, Distance, Absence

"Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone-I am not alone."

Eleesha, British Author

Loss, Grief, Connection, Support, Community

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Design

"Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after."

Day

"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted."

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"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony."

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"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."

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"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

"When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer's dream.)"

"It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle."

"Fear no more as long as her memory surrounds you like a ghost, cry no more as long as she weeps for you like a willow."

"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."

"When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be."

"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."

"May be you are gone,but that doesn't make me come back."

"Your loss, serves as a stark reminder that, although I feel so alone-I am not alone."

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"To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants."

"The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England."

"Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after."

"Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted."

"It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches."

"I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians."

"It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand."

"We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony."

"The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals."

"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."