The Lost Quotes

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

What is gained by debt relief and aid can be lost if we don't get a proper trade agreement in Hong Kong.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Do you want to be happy? Forget yourself and get lost in this great cause.

I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

This [2016] election was lost because a total of 70,000 people - out of 120-130 million votes - in the Rust belt, but as a result America is in the calamity.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Teddy has lost that yard of pace he never had.

If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

If I look back I am lost.