Character Loss Quotes

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

It is not extraordinary that these people should be disorderly. The are almost entirely emigrant from the frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee, and are the most desolate and abandoned even among these people; they are men of desperate fortunes, but little to lose: either character or property

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall.

Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.

If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost.

Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

People say you never remember anybody who dies in movies, and it's true, you don't. You don't even remember people who disappear.

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

I think it's bad for fellas when they lose their mothers. Mine was such a character. Oh it was sad, really sad. And, with her gone, the family home was gone, so what was left of any roots I had were completely dug up.

A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.

It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.