Famous quotes containing the words sea, ice and/or loss:
“If the sea were ink
For the words of my Lord,
the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.”
—QurAn. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)
“Line in nature is not found;
Unit and universe are round;
In vain produced, all rays return;
Evil will bless, and ice will burn.
As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
A shudder ran around the sky;”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Upset at the young wifes
first loss of virtue
in a riverside thicket,
a flock of birds
flies up,
mourning the loss
with their wings.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)