#los

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#emmanuel #lost-at-sea #love #missing #storm

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#anything #i #language #lost #say

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#considerable #extent #faith #holy #lost

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss? ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#culture #dreams #else #feel #i

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. ↗

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#connect #distinctly #grow #mature #more

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ↗

— Ben Hogan

#close #come #every #golf #having

The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#because #behind #blond #blond hair #closed

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#being #book #close #columns #couple

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#civil servants #diplomats #drawn #foreign #get

Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. ↗

— Billie Holiday

#lose #sometimes #than #win #worse