La pérdida de una cosa nos afecta hasta hasta no perderla toda.
Voces (1943)
“We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.”
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. XXII : Grand Master Architect, p. 190
Melissa Lucashenko (1967) Australian writer
On aboriginal lore in “The interview: Melissa Lucashenko” https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-interview-melissa-lucashenko-20130306-2flr6.html in The Sydney Morning Herald (2013 Mar 9)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, Memorial Service for Fallen Dallas Police Officers (July 2016)
Context: For all of us, life presents challenges and suffering -- accidents, illnesses, the loss of loved ones. There are times when we are overwhelmed by sudden calamity, natural or manmade. All of us, we make mistakes. And at times we are lost. And as we get older, we learn we don’t always have control of things -- not even a President does. But we do have control over how we respond to the world. We do have control over how we treat one another.
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
“We have significant losses of troops and it is a huge tragedy for us.”
Dmitry Peskov (1967) Russian politician
"'Huge tragedy for us': Kremlin admits 'significant' Russian troop losses in Ukraine" https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/04/07/dmitry-peskov-kremlin-admits-significant-losses-ukraine-tsr-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/russia-ukraine-military-conflict/, 8. april 2022 <br class="br">CNN Interview (March 2022)
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.”
J. M. Barrie book Margaret Ogilvy
Source: Margaret Ogilvy (1897), Ch. 8
“You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection”
James Buchanan (1791–1868) American politician, 15th President of the United States (in office from 1857 to 1861)
Letter returned to him unopened, to the father of his former fiancée Ann Coleman, written after her death, rumored to have been suicide soon after her breaking of their engagement. (1819).
Context: You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not. Afford me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before internment.
