What You've Lost Quotes

#1. Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Jonathan Tropper

#2. Keeping what you have is hard like searching for what you've lost.

Auliq Ice

#3. In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Hubert H. Humphrey

#4. That's what we've lost, you know. What you've lost; all of you. A sense of wonder and awe and ... sin. These people know there are still things they don't know, things that can still go wrong, things they can still do wrong.

Iain M. Banks

#5. Pain isn't freeing. It's just one more reminder of what you've lost. And

Elisabeth Naughton

#6. Don't live in the past - you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?

Douglas Preston

#7. Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.

David Nicholls

#8. You can't get back what you've lost, What's important now is What is it that you still have. - Jimbei

Eiichiro Oda

#9. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

Jonathan Tropper

#10. Sometimes, commitment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost.

Jonathan Tropper

#11. Death changes everyone ... It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life. Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often than not, it makes you regret what you've lost.

Tara Sivec

#12. If you're always looking back at what you've lost, you'll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#13. In foster care it's easier to measure what you've lost over what you have gained, because it there aren't many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else's plans for your life.

John William Tuohy

#14. Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

Rumi

#15. Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Elizabeth Edwards

#16. I always thought of grief as a blow that took everything out of you. And it is like that. But it stays, past that first hard hit. It stays and blows its breath into you.
It's always there, reminding you of what you've lost. What's gone.

Elizabeth Scott

#17. Bitterness is one of the deadliest emotions we ever feel. You can't look forward when you're bitter, only backward - thinking about what you've lost, stuck in the past, despairing because it's gone. In the end, it devours all hope.

Lynn Austin

#18. Stop thinking about what you've lost, and think about what you have left.

Kristin Hannah

#19. What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!

CM Punk

#20. You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.-Allison

Julie Kagawa

#21. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again ... even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

Taylor Swift

#22. You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

Maya Lin

#23. But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them.

Tommy Lee

#24. When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

Christine Caine

#25. It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you've started to leave, you will run your whole life.

Charlotte Eriksson

#26. You've got to be in the moment, especially in the playoffs. If you're worried about the past, worried about what happened last game, that's a lost cause.

Drew Storen

#27. The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.

Tom Thibodeau

#28. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.

Melyssa Winchester

#29. Only by embracing all that you regret and not denying it, only by placing the highest value on what you've gained because of all you've lost, does regret lose the ability to cripple you.

Augusten Burroughs

#30. You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Alyson Noel

#31. If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do ...

Tony Parsons

#32. And if you don't find what you're looking for?"
At Roy's question Addie looked up.
"Then all I've lost is time.

Jodi Picoult

#33. It has been quite a weight, hasn't it?" Tam asked. "What weight?" Rand replied. "That lost hand you've been carrying." Rand looked down at his stump. "Yes. I believe it has been at that.

Robert Jordan

#34. Books are what you love. They are what you know. It's obviously your passion. I didn't want you to lose that. You've lost enough

J.L. Mac

#35. Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.

John Searles

#36. You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#37. So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss ... A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.

John Green

#38. Thinking you've lost everything when times are tough only proves to how little you pay attention to what you really have.

A.M. Sawyer

#39. I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

Michael Jordan

#40. I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.

Elizabeth Rudnick

#41. Do you have any idea what it feels like to suddenly realize that the reason you've have been so lost your whole life is because a piece of you was missing and you never even knew it - only to find that missing piece and know that you can't have it and so you will never, ever be whole?

Olivia Fuller

#42. During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

Harriet Doerr

#43. When you've fallen from the sky, been abandoned by your friend, suffered police brutality, metamorphosed into a goat, lost your work as well as your wife, learned the power of hatred and regained human shape, what is there left to do but, as you would no doubt phrase it, demand your rights?

Salman Rushdie

#44. Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Simone De Beauvoir

#45. 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.

David Levithan

#46. That's what does it
that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.

Steven Brust

#47. Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of premarital sex. The monster has been released. You've lost your virginity and may have been sexually active for years. Perhaps you've been carrying a load of guilt for doing what you knew was wrong.

James C. Dobson

#48. No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods."
"Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown ...

Charles M. Schulz

#49. Until you realize what they are. They're just ways to lose the game. You lose the game, and what have you lost? You've lost the game. Corion had told me about the game. How many of my thoughts were his? How much of my philosophy was filth from that old man's fingers?

Mark Lawrence

#50. I've lost, but I also gained a lot. I'm a creative person, and no one can take that away from me. I've been told I committed professional suicide because it was the only escape from the terrible pressures I was facing. What do you think?

John Galliano

#51. Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.

Asha Tyson

#52. In a situation of occupation or domination, the occupier, the dominant power, has to justify what it's doing. There is only one way to do it - become a racist. You have to blame the victim. Once you become a raving racist in self-defense, you've lost your capacity to understand what's happening.

Noam Chomsky

#53. Ever since you were a girl, you've been running for what you wanted ... Now you're lost, but you're still running full speed ... How will you ever figure out what you want when everything is a blur?

Kristin Hannah

#54. I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

Carine Roitfeld

#55. I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

John C. Reilly

#56. There is no world without you in it. Nothing. I'm not talking about despair. I've lost people. This isn't me being a child. There is one universe. Just one. And it's between us. If you destroy that universe, you destroy me. Do you understand what I'm saying?

C.D. Reiss

#57. A violin?" I echoed, making a face. "Really? You're calling in a favor for that? What, you don't want to wait until you've lost a pipe organ or something?" - Puck

Julie Kagawa

#58. I've already lost a piece of my mind. I can't trust you with what's left.

Katie McGarry

#59. It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Alice Hoffman

#60. Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Jack Kevorkian

#61. When you've lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.

Martin Amis

#62. she asked 'you are in love what does love look like' to which i replied 'like everything i've ever lost come back to me.

Nayyirah Waheed

#63. There's no difference if you're a supermodel or if you've lost both your legs. What are you doing that's beautiful or ugly on the inside?

Nikki Sixx

#64. It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost.

Sela Ward

#65. I'm probably less serious about my game than I was in the past. I've lost a brother and father in the past six years. And what about people who have lost friends and comrades in war? Golf is a game. You've got to keep that in perspective.

Peter Jacobsen

#66. People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

James Baldwin

#67. Who doesn't long for one more time of seeing someone they've loved and lost? And yet what would you say, what would you do, if it were possible?

Elizabeth Berg

#68. Whatever. I've never understood what the big deal is about reading." He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs. "Going to another place. Getting lost in time. Pretending that you're living a different life." He heads down the stairs and I follow him. "What's not to love?

Jessica Sorensen

#69. You've got choices, like any other creature. You can stumble down that road, pretending you can't help it. You can curl up and die of regret and sorrow for what you've done. Or you can get up and fight, even though the battle might be lost.-Finn

Kersten Hamilton

#70. The day you witness wrongdoing and fail to feel compelled to do something to stop it, is the day you've lost sight of what life is all about.

Candice Snow

#71. If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.

Ray McKinnon

#72. 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?

Jodi Picoult

#73. Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

Evan Esar

#74. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

Henry James

#75. Never accept a counteroffer. If they weren't good to you the first time, they've lost their chance to gain your loyalty and trust. What makes you think it will be better the next time?

Christine Brae

#76. You need to calm down and remember that everyone grieves differently. Doesn't mean they don't care. You don't judge people in pain, and you damn sure don't lash out at them when they've lost what Syn has!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#77. In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#78. If you're following God and haven't lost much of what you've been holding on to - follow a little closer.

Bob Goff

#79. And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.

Nick Offerman

#80. It's like, once you've seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, you've seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you can't fully get really lost in them.

Justin Theroux

#81. Because you understand. More than anyone. Because you know what it's like never to trust anyone - to be completely alone, lost in a disguise of your own making. Because ... because for quite some time I've -

Sara B. Larson

#82. Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

#83. Bottom line, you didn't take care of what was yours. Now, as Nina has explained, you've lost it, I found it and it's mine.

Kristen Ashley

#84. This is what a total breakdown must be, I though. You find yourself standing somewhere you should't be, doing something so out of character that you wonder if you've become someone else entirely. You've lost the plot, taken a wrong turning, jumped into a train whose destination is total lunacy

Gilly Macmillan

#85. Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

Pascale Petit

#86. If I'd chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I'd never have known what I've lost. Do you see what I'm getting at? Sometimes it's worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.

Jostein Gaarder

#87. None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.

Eugene O'Neill

#88. Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.

Evan Esar

#89. Blake . . . it's inevitable," I said, repeating the words I'd learned. "You've seen it on the horizon. You know what's coming. Paradise is always lost."
"That's a convenient turn of phrase," he said. "But paradise is never lost. Only destroyed.

Heidi Heilig

#90. Do you think the dead don't know what they've lost? Don't you ever wonder why they seek human flesh? That maybe it's their way of believing again? Of living again - if even for that one pure moment that blood pulses inside their mouths?

Carrie Ryan

#91. What I mean to say is, the more you remember, the more you've lost.

Emily St. John Mandel

#92. ...it's not him that you're still pining after, it's the lost time. You're mourning what should've been more so than what really was. You feel robbed as well you should, but not for the right reasons.

Jordan Silver

#93. You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

Robert Frost

#94. I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.

Kobe Bryant

#95. I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

Harrison Ford

#96. I've wondered since if you can ever truly read a face. It's too easy to see what you so desperately want to see, even if it isn't there. I knew that.

Debbie Howells

#97. Don't know what to do anymore,
I've lost the only love worth fighting for,
and I'll drown in my tears storming sea,
That would show you, that which make you hurt like me

A Fine Frenzy

#98. Because that's what friends do. They speak the truth when you've lost your way, pick you up and brush you off , tell you that you're going to make it to the other side, and cheer you on until you get there.

Melanie Shankle

#99. She must have been tired, because instead of jamming the whip down Monique's throat, she stood up and, in a very even tone, said, If you think you've seen me mad before, imagine what I could do to you when I've just lost everything.

Barbra Annino

#100. What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In fact, maybe I've never actually found God at all, but imagining that I have indeed found something so much larger and more beautiful than I can explain is more often enough for me.

Ashley Mae Hoiland