L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Losing you was the worst thing that's ever happened to me, and I still feel the echo of that”
Source: Love and Other Words
“Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.”
“Losing your faith in a world where God is all around you is a precarious business. When God shows his face on a daily basis to your friends and neighbors, it is, on some level, impossible to stop believing in Him. Instead i felt that God chose to exclude me from His world. Since i was the only one to lose faith, to stop hearing Christ's voice, i thought perhaps it was my fault that Roy had left us. I thought i was being punished for some unknown sin. I had learned early in my Catholic career that one could sin silently in one's heart. One could even sin without ever discovering what one had done or why it was wrong. What had i done, i asked myself, to make God disappear and take Roy with Him.”
“Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.”
Source: Article 5
“Losing your family….it puts fear in a different perspective,” he said. “Besides, I got by all right. I stayed on the fringe around Chicago, hoped around tent cities and Red Cross camps. Worked for some people who didn’t ask questions. Avoided case-workers and foster care. And thought about you.”
“Me?” I huffed, completely unsettled. In awe at how vanilla my life seemed. In awe of what he’d endured, He turned then, meeting my eyes for the first time. When he spoke, his voice was gentle, and unashamed.
“You. The only thing in my life that doesn’t change. When everything went to hell, you were all I had.”
Source: Article 5
“Losing your friendship hurt, losing your job hurt, the only thing losing doesn't hurt is weight. Losing weight is a blessing.”
“Losing your hair and the need to replenish it at all cost is overrated, being bald is a beautiful or manly thing embrace it”
“Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.”
“Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny”
“Losing your job gives you the ability to decide what product each unit of your passing life should produce”
“Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count”
“Losing your job is an awesome opportunity for new discoveries”
“Losing your job is an awesome opportunity to look inside yourself and make new discoveries”
“Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money”
“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
“Losing your mind, which is what happened, is a terrible thing. But once it’s gone, it’s fine. It’s completely fine because there’s no part of you left that knows the rest of it is missing.”
“Losing your smile is the biggest loss of your life.”
“Losing your virginity is a lot like when you find out that Santa doesn’t exist… First you’re slightly disappointed, and then you’re happy because you’re in on the secret”
“Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.”
“Losing yourself in a relationship is a loss that ends your happiness.”
“Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.”
“Losing's a great motivator.”
“Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.”
“Loss and grief don’t magically disappear; they just find a different outlet. You have to find a way to deal with it, and we dealt with it in different ways.”
Source: One Good Thing
“Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.”
Source: The Verse of Hilaire Belloc
“Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.”
Source: Loud and Clear
“Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.”
“Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.”
“Loss breaks you open, but it is love that teaches the pieces how to become whole again.”
Source: High School Blues
“Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection - in memory - that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”
“Loss cannot comprehend gain.
Lack cannot comprehend growth.
Vacuum cannot comprehend space.
Nothingness cannot comprehend awareness.
Growth cannot comprehend stagnation.
Progress cannot comprehend inaction.
Speed cannot comprehend inactivity.
Calmness cannot comprehend agitation.
Matter cannot comprehend nonexistence.
Nature cannot comprehend emptiness.
Illusion cannot comprehend reality.
Nowhere cannot comprehend somewhere.
Darkness cannot comprehend light.
Chaos cannot comprehend order.
Sound cannot comprehend silence.
Chance cannot comprehend fate.
Distance cannot comprehend separation.
Error cannot comprehend truth.
Force cannot comprehend rest.
Confusion cannot comprehend harmony.
Ignorance cannot comprehend intelligence.
Oblivion cannot comprehend consciousness.
Stillness cannot comprehend motion.
Death cannot comprehend life.”
“Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.”
Source: This Tender Land
“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.”
Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic
“Loss didn't follow any maps; it wove through joy and pain and years as easily as lightning through a storm. No one knew where it was going to strike - only that it would.”
Source: Of Flame and Fury
“Loss does not mean the end, my boy.
It is a beginning.
Yes, the pain will remain…
but within it lies something that lets us grow.”
Source: Symphony of Solitude: A Novel about Mr. Ford
“Loss doesn't work same for everybody.”
“Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death.”
“Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.”
“Loss generally occurs when a player overrates his advantage or for other reasons seeks to derive from a minute advantage a great return such as a forced win.”
Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess
“Loss gives us a chance for an upgrade.”
“Loss has a way of grounding us, reminding us to cherish every moment and to ensure that every action we take—big or small—has meaning.”
Source: Humanism from the Heart: Building Bridges Beyond Belief
“Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve.”
Source: Go as a River
“Loss in Vietnam radicalized a generation of veterans, pushing many into the ranks of white-supremacist groups. Ronald Reagan, as the standard bearer of an ascendant New Right, effectively tapped into this radicalization, which helped lift him to victory in his 1980 presidential campaign. Once he was in office, Reagan's re-escalation of the Cold War allowed him to contain the radicalization, preventing it from spilling over (too much) into domestic politics. Anti-communist campaigns in Central America—a region Reagan called "our southern frontier"—were especially helpful in focusing militancy outward. But Reagan's Central American wars (which comprised support for the Contras in Nicaragua and death squads in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras) generated millions of refugees, many, perhaps most, of whom fled to the United States. As they came over the border, they inflamed the same constituencies that Reagan had mobilized to wage the wars that had turned them into refugees in the first place.”
Source: The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
“Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The word "loser" follows you, bird-dogs you, sniffs you out of whatever fields you hide in because you have to face things clearly and you cannot turn away from what is true.”
Source: My Losing Season: A Memoir
“Loss is a given of existence.”
Source: Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times
“Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary.”
Source: Year of the Reaper
“Loss is a wound that never fully heals, a scar that remains etched in our souls.”
Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
“Loss is a wound that never heals. Never, never, never. It scabs over, and for a time you can almost forget it’s there, but then something—a smell, a sound, a memory—will split that wound right open and you’ll be reminded again that you’re not whole. That you’ll never fully be whole again.”
Source: War
“Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.”
“Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.”