Lost Quotes - page 6

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. (Jeanette Winterson)

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs.

Ernest Hemingway

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Richard Bach

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

Nick Hornby

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

William Cowper

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right.

William Cowper

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

Daniel Boone

For want of a nail, the shoe is lost for want of a shoe the horse is lost and for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. (Joseph Roux)

There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Douglas Coupland

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

George Orwell

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa Baa Baa We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa Yah Bah.

Rudyard Kipling

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young.

Rudyard Kipling

If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.

Václav Havel

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

David Hume

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Zig Ziglar

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To doubt
Is worse than to have lost; and to despair
Is but to antedate those miseries
That must fall on us. (Philip Massinger)

Nothing lasts but nothing is lost.

Terence McKenna

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost.

William Butler Yeats

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Virginia Woolf

Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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