Lost Quotes - page 15

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. (Orson Scott Card)
By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet. View quote
Colette
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen. View quote
David Gemmell
Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. View quote
Erykah Badu
They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live. View quote
Suzanne Collins
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear. View quote
Dinah Craik
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection. (Dinah Craik)
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round. View quote
Robert Browning
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost? View quote
Jane Jacobs
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next? View quote
Jodi Picoult
I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life. View quote
Laura Nyro
Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea. (Clarice Lispector)
I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. View quote
F. R. Leavis
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. View quote
Leo Buscaglia