Quotes on Loses

I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

But you know it's hard to tell When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real But you're bound to lose If you let the blues get you scared to feel

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you may emerge from the process as a not-entirely-human creature. (Referenced in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young)

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.

...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.