Famous quotes containing the words sight and/or loss:
“If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.”
—Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)
“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)