Lost Quotes

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

While I am speaking the opportunity is lost.

Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.

She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Have you and Nash both lost your minds? This is really a very simple concept--one that you taught me! Hellion equals evil. Period!" -Kaylee to Tod

Regret couldn't fix what he's broken. Apologies couldn't bring back what he's lost. What we'd lost.

"I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility.

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it.

I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.

Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

Without question, dying on 'Lost' was the best thing I have ever done in my entire career.

When I got 'Lost,' I was about to not be able to live, so it was a fall-to-the-knees, burst-into-tears, 'I'm saved by this great role' moment.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.

Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.

The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

The communists have lost the cold war, but the west has not yet won it.

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days.