Top 100 I Have Lost Quotes
#1. I have with me all that I do not know. I have lost none of it.
W.S. Merwin
#2. Grail Figure: Have you found the secret that I have lost?
Perceval: Yes. You and the land are one.
Excalibur
#3. I feel like I have lost all control. I am going to roll with it.
Amanda Mosher
#4. This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.
Joyce Carol Oates
#5. You're what gives me strength. If I am what centers you, Nikki, then you are what anchors me. Every time I touch you, every time I bury myself deep inside you - Nikki, don't you see?
You are the talisman of my life, and if I lose my grip on you, then I have lost myself.
J. Kenner
#6. Oh, Cameron," Eldon replied in a whisper, moving closer and brushing his lips over Cameron's mouth. "You are literally the very reason my heart beats. Nothing I have lost can compare with the love in you I have found.
Zathyn Priest
#7. It's no small thing - ending someone else's life. There should be some sort of gravity to that, shouldn't there? My insides are heavy, but it has nothing to do with what I did. It is only about what I have lost.
Paula Stokes
#8. There are times I have doubted. Times I have lost my way- without my anchor I would probably be lost still.
Bree Despain
#9. For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#10. I literally cannot even. I can't even. I am unable to even. I have lost my ability to even. I am so unable to even.
Tyler Oakley
#11. It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#12. Simply because I have lost faith in the cause doesn't mean the training has lost all of its usefulness.
Susan Dennard
#13. I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.
Joseph Heller
#16. 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.
Gustavo Perez Firmat
#17. I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
Jean Cocteau
#18. It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.
Wangari Maathai
#19. The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.
Dorothy Allison
#20. I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
Emily Bronte
#21. I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.
Maya Angelou
#22. I have loved, cried, been mad with happiness. I have won and I have lost.
Anita Ekberg
#23. I have lost weight because my events are so exciting. When I'm done I don't want to eat.But I could see how it could go the other way for some people. That's only because their events are boring.
Donald Trump
#24. I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.
Isabel Allende
#25. Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. I wish you to judge for me entirely,' was the reply. 'I have lost confidence in myself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#27. I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale
Cassandra Clare
#28. I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#29. I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all important.
Joni Mitchell
#30. Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
Ray Stevenson
#31. I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
Veronica Roth
#32. I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain.
Heather Nova
#33. Cedarstar was the first of the nine cats to step forward. He bowed his head to Brokentail and meowed, "I give you a life to live by the warrior code. Remember it well, Brokentail, and let it be your guide. Wiser cats than you or I have lost their way without it.
Erin Hunter
#34. I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.
Neil Oliver
#35. But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time - I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#36. I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
Umberto Eco
#38. What matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds
Kristin Hannah
#39. I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.
Kristin Hannah
#40. I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.
Eve Ensler
#41. I know I have gained Christ and through His blessing I have gained the whole world too, but for what I have lost, for what we have all lost, there is no end to the reckoning. We lost everything.
Bernard Cornwell
#42. As her voice finally swells and the song runs out of words, I know I have lost her. She becomes something more important; and she was right, I do not understand.
Pierce Brown
#43. I did not have a script [of Close Up]. I made notes in the evenings and we filmed during the day over 40 days.I didn't sleep a wink for those 40 nights. I have a picture from the end of the shoot, and in it I have lost all my hair.
Abbas Kiarostami
#44. I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.
Steven Van Zandt
#45. No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.
Sandie Shaw
#47. I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
Charlotte Eriksson
#48. Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
Gayle Forman
#49. In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#50. There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.
Lydia M. Child
#51. I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.
Cynthia Ozick
#52. On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: Friends, I have lost a day.
Suetonius
#53. I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.
Richard Simmons
#54. I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. "Until the end of forever, Layel." -DELILAH
Gena Showalter
#55. I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
Russell Hoban
#56. Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis
#57. I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship
Forrest Gander
#58. Because I have lost everything already. My hands shake as
Veronica Roth
#59. It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made.
Voltaire
#60. That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
John Green
#61. If a person acts out of character, then there's one thing you can be sure of: there is something wrong. I have seen this so many times I have lost count.
Alexander McCall Smith
#62. I have lost my rhythm.
I can't sleep.
I can't eat.
I have been robbed of
my filth.
Charles Bukowski
#63. I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself.
Chris Offutt
#64. I did nothing wrong, and yet I have lost everything!
Erin Hunter
#65. This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.
Rachel
#66. The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.
Denis Diderot
#67. So many women come to me saying, "I have lost too,
and this one, and this one". So many embryos retreat
to flesh: the live cell of the mother. Don't tell me that it
will happen for me, when the only sure thing is a miracle:
the sperm nuzzling in its nest and the egg that opens, explodes.
Zoe Brigley
#68. I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.
Michelle Waterson
#69. "I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility.
Radhanath Swami
#70. I watch, and wait. And mourn, for what I must now do to save Jessamine's life makes me unworthy of her love. Whether she lives or dies, I know I have lost her.
I have lost her, forever.
Maryrose Wood
#71. They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
#72. I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.
Mark Edward
#73. I have missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I have lost almost three hundred games. On twenty-six occasions, I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot ... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - MICHAEL JORDAN
Frank Luntz
#74. Yes, I have loved, Ms. Lane, and although it's none of your business, I have lost. Many things.
Karen Marie Moning
#75. I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that I have lost all the names, the other, that I have spent all the money.
Samuel Johnson
#76. If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#77. I have lost and put on big batches of weight in my life many, many times. But what concerns me is the idea of being an obese old woman, because I don't like the idea of being physically incapable in someone else's hands.
Alison Moyet
#78. Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady ... I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?
Sylvia Plath
#79. I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#80. I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand.
Clarice Lispector
#81. You run back and forth listening for unusual events,
peering into the faces of travelers.
"Why are you looking at me like a madman?"
I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
Rumi
#83. I have lost you, Gat, because of how desperately, desperately I fell in love.
E. Lockhart
#84. Never say about anything, I have lost it, but only I have given it back.
Epictetus
#85. And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. Know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.
Kristin Hannah
#87. As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface..Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.
Hans Arp
#88. I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther
#89. I have lost you, my brother
And your death has ended
The spring season
Of my happiness,
our house is buried with you
And buried the laughter that you taught me.
There are no thoughts of love nor of poems
In my head
Since you died.
Catullus
#90. Go home and say to yourself, 'I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#91. I've longed for you so, while my connection to the rest of reality has torn. It is that you have lost me. And I have lost you, longing for more than my enough.
Brandi Gomez
#92. The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.
Indro Montanelli
#93. I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.
Roger Ebert
#94. I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.
Simon Wiesenthal
#95. I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
Jose Rizal
#97. Leaf fans loyalty is unshakeable. The fans keep coming back and it hurts, I have been there. I have lost in game six to go to the finals with the Maple Leafs, against Carolina and what a great final that would have been.
Curtis Joseph
#98. I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
#99. Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
Gabrielle Giffords
#100. I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children - they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.
Mary Tyler Moore
