Lost Quotes

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

Silence means they [the audience] are paying attention. Even if I drop bombs and they're dead quiet, it's still okay. If they start talking, that's when you've lost them.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.

A girl should get so lost in God, that a guy has to seek God to find her!

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

(Don) Sutton lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

The press lost credibility with Republicans and independents during the Obama years, setting itself up for the damage that's going to be done during the Trump years.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with

There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

We like to hunt and golf and drive around lost, and scratch and spit, and a whole lot of other disgusting stuff.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God.

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

Sometimes you get lost and you find something new.