Collective Loss Quotes

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of them died. On my mother's side the picture was pretty much the same. Russia has suffered great losses. And of course we can't forget that.

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

When you stifle human potential, when you don’t invest in new ideas, it doesn’t just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

Whether it was the 9/11 attacks, Paris shooting, or the attack on the Taj, people across the world mourn the collective loss.

It is hard to lose for everybody.

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

Your loss we count as our loss. Your struggle we take as our struggle.

When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

A Merchant may gain where the Nation loses.

His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.