L Quotes
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“LOSS
'Sorry for your loss, they say. And I want to know what they mean, because it's not just my boys I've lost. I've lost my motherhood, my chance to be a grandmother. I've lost the easy conversation of neighbours and the comfort of family in my old age. Every day I wake to some new loss that I hadn't thought of before, and I know that soon it will be my mind.'
Vivienne Blackman, 1915”
Source: The Dictionary of Lost Words
“Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“Loss taught me the value of tears. Just as the rains come down to wash away debris and dust, tears unleashed can bring relief.”
Source: Excursions in my Mind
“Loss teaches patience, reflection, and the enduring power of memory. It’s only through facing absence that perspective deepens and the value of fleeting moments becomes clear.”
“Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.”
“Loss, when it occurs, has memory stronger than the mind, stronger than visual recollection patterned in the brain. It’s something the flesh knows, the muscles know, like a dancer reciting a step done hundreds of times, like a musician playing a song or a scale after decades without practice. It’s something the body knows, something the body is aware of while the mind adapts, responds, reacts.”
Source: I Will Die in a Foreign Land
“Loss will rip you apart, Amora... It will take whatever you give it, and it will never be satisfied. So don't you dare give it yourself”
Source: All the Tides of Fate
“LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he "lost his election".”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place.”
“Losse embraceth shame.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.”
Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon
“Losses are always a relief. They take a burden off me, make me feel more normal. If I win several tournaments in a row I get so confident I'm in a cloud. If I lose I go back to the dressing room and I'm no better nor worse than anyone else. A loss gets me eager again.”
“Losses are common in love and war, whether you win or lose.”
“Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.”
“Losses are inevitable, but excuses are optional.”
“Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.”
“Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists.”
“Losses that are lessons create wins.”
“Lost And Found…
first, i got lost
in his eyes, and in his words,
and in his arms holding me…
then i got lost in all the lies he told,
and i was just… lost.
but then i looked myself
in the eyes, and i started to find my voice,
and i learned to hold myself up,
and i began searching for my truth,
and now… i’m finding my way,
and i’m finding myself.”
“Lost are the seekers of miracles. Only in the end, in the telling and re-telling of the tale, is the miracle seen - Life.”
“Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.”
Source: The inferno
“Lost Cause ideology and the mythology of the Solid South were cudgels employed to demand political conformity among whites to stifle dissent from ruling-class agendas as well as to suppress blacks. In his definitive study of disenfranchisement, The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910, J. Morgan Kousser quotes North Carolina Governor Charles B. Aycock, who made the point succinctly, writing several years after a violent 1898 Democratic putsch ousted the interracial Populist-Republican-Fusion government that had won consecutive statewide elections: "The Democratic party is alone sufficient. We need a united people. We need the combined effort of every North Carolinian. We need the strength which comes from believing alike." Segregation was enforced on whites as well as blacks.
That reality is obscured in a contemporary perspective that flattens out history and context into a simple polarity of racism/anti-racism and reduces politics to an unchanging contest of black and white. That perspective compresses historical distinctions between slavery and Jim Crow and ignores the generation of struggle, often enough biracial or interracial, against ruling class power over defining the political and economic character of the post-Emancipation South, as well as ongoing struggle against and within the new order as it consolidated.”
Source: The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
“Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.”
Source: The Lady Vanishes
“Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.”
“Lost causes may be the best causes—they usually are—but once lost they are never won.”
Source: Anarchism
“Lost count of all the countless things
I've lost throughout the years
Lost friends and time and interest in
The things I should hold dear
Lost sleep just pondering the things
That have been lost to me
Especially the loss of love
I've need desperately
I find it doesn't help at all
To sit around and brood
I find nobody gives a damn
About your petty moods
At least that's what I thought
Until the day you came along
Now, I found my restless soul
Has finally found a home
Lost and found, I'm safe sound
No more drifting aimlessly, I've settled down
I've finally came around
No more to roam, those days are gone
I was alone, now I know I don't have to be
Since your amazing love has found me”
Source: Run, Rose, Run
“Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.”
“Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman’s shameless grin. Reward if returned.”
Source: What Happens in Ireland
“Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.”
“Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.”
Source: 'Tis Herself: An Autobiography
“Lost in a daydream.”
“Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.”
Source: Canción de cuna y otros poemas
“Lost in a Quatrain - the state of being deep in thought, contemplative...”
Source: Lost in a Quatrain
“Lost
In black as solid as a mire
In a land no one would die for
In a time I was lost
To anyone who ever loved me
The world set itself on fire
And the sky collapsed above me
In a place no one could call home
In a place I breathed and slept
In a battle no one understood
That continued all the same
I sat defenseless and alone
With the insignificance of my name
In the midst of the Lord’s birth
On a night meant to be peaceful
In a country of the Prophet
Where women don’t live free
I spoke to God from the shaking Earth
And prayed my mother would forgive me
In a city without power
In a desert torn by religion
In a bank between two rivers
We added up the decade’s cost
And glorified the final hour
Of a war that everyone had lost
In the dust of helplessness
In a concrete bunker
In a fate I chose myself
I waited without remorse
To fight again as recompense
For wasted lives and discourse
-an original poem about an attack on our base in Iraq during the Arab Spring”
“Lost in ecstasy, I keep searching for sunflowers in the snow.”
“Lost in Hell,-Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here.”
Source: Collected Poems
“Lost in his thoughts he looked out from his shop at the shining loveliness of that first day of March. Opposite him, a little to the side, stood the eternal bridge, everlastingly the same; through its white arches could be seen the green, sparkling, tumultuous waters of the Drina, so that they seemed like some strange diadem in two colours which sparkled in the sun.”
Source: The Bridge on the Drina
“Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.”
Source: The Collected Shorter Poems
“Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.”
“Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.”
Source: Too Loud a Solitude
“Lost in Space brings back a lot of memories for people, and I think that any time youre involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that.”
“Lost In Space fans are going to get organized, because we'll see them showing up in all the theatres.”
“Lost In Space is played on television somewhere in the world every day. It's been a cult show.”
“Lost in Static 18
And the storm is closing in now
Automatic 18 - Got to push through - Trapped in living hell
You're a prisoner of the dark sky
The propeller blades are still
And the evil eye of the hurricane's
Coming in now for the kill”
“Lost in Tale"
Cold wooden slats
Breathless morning
Train click clacks
Motorists roaring
Full harvest moon
Street lamps mourning
Jovial voices tune
Cool breeze scorning
Ghost cat trails
Vibrant leaves adjourning
Aged bone wail
Tears storing
Lost in tale
Anguish boring
Searching the grail
Timeless loring
Vacant bench
Soul for lorning
Heart strings pinch
Memories adjourning
Copyright ©️ Laura DeGrave”
Source: Crispy Ink Muse
“Lost in tangled bed sheets
we found another universe.”
Source: Simple Infinities
“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.”
“Lost in the darkness, a light has shine on us.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Lost in the golden glimmer of her muddy moonradish eyes her kiss soothes my heart feeling myself melt into her love. Brushing my fingertips against her dark eyebrows and pressing my lips to her forehead I then see her perfect smile tasting again her marvelous lips.”
Source: Arabala