Quotes By Letter: L

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

-Vincent Lombardi

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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“The leaves of memory seemed to make mournful rustling in the dark.”

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! --
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.”

-A Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“Poor wrapper that damped
my fantastical star, parchment gray and mournful
of what I loved once but love no more!”

-New Heart, Federico García Lorca

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“Ni un solo momento, viejo hermoso Walt Whitman,
he dejado de ver tu barba Ilena de mariposas.

(Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman,
have I ceased seeing your beard full of butterflies.)”

-Oda a Walt Whitman, Federico García Lorca

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“(Dejaré mi boca entre tus piernas,
mi alma en fotografías y azucenas,
y en las ondas oscuras de tu andar
quiero, amor mío, amor mío, dejar,
violín y sepulcro, las cintas del vals)

I will leave my mouth between your legs,
my soul in photographs and lilies,
And in the dark wake of your footsteps,
My love, my love, I will have to leave
Violin and grave, the waltzing ribbons.”

-Pequeño Vals Vienés (Little Viennese Waltz), Federico García Lorca

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“Frodo: I can't do this Sam!

Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn't. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo and it's worth fighting for.”

-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers [movie]

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“We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.”

-Uses of the Erotic: The erotic as Power., Audre Lorde

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“Somebody kill me
Kill me pills
No one cares my friends
My friend
I'm miss worlds
Watch me break
And watch me burn
No one is listening
My friends
Now I've made my bed I'll lie in it.”

-Miss World, Courtney Love

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“Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.”

-Happiness, Amy Lowell

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“I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.”

-The Letter, Amy Lowell

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“There are two kinds of weakness; that which breaks, and that which bends.”

-James Russell Lowell

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“I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers.”

-David Lynch

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