Loss

Famous quotes containing the word loss:

“This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)

“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)