Lost Quotes

I have never lost a total passion for my work.

Not lost, but gone before.

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

We haven't always been boy scouts, but we never lost sight of the music, Let me remind you that this ain't the end.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

Jazz is for joy. It's for euphoria, it's for emotion, and anguish, and excitement, and all of the joys that great art can produce, and if it loses that, then it's lost everything.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

I could have possibly beaten Senator McCain in the primary. Then I could have been the candidate who lost to Barack Obama.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.