When You Lost Something Quotes

#1. When you lost something precious, the memories of it became a tormenting reminder of what you could never have again.

Gena Showalter

#2. Dad was worried, I could tell. This was not a surprise. He was the kind of dad who loved you so much he hurt when you hurt, and when you lost something precious he lost it right with you. On

Kristen Ashley

#3. When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are.

Lewis Black

#4. The world lost something when you died, Tod, and I know that wasn't easy for your family. But the world's loss was Kaylee's gain. I hope the two of you have the forever her mother and I never got."
"I will do my damnedest to make sure of that."
"I know you will.

Rachel Vincent

#5. The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

Joshua Bell

#6. When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.

Ryu Murakami

#7. 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

#8. At heart, science is the quest for awesome - the literal awe that you feel when you understand something profound for the first time. It's a feeling we are all born with, although it often gets lost as we grow up and more mundane concerns take over our lives.

Sean Carroll

#9. Isn't that how it always is? Just when you think you've lost something so precious, you can't ever recover from it . . . and then, if you keep your eyes and heart open, you find that the loss has made room for something else of great value, something you would never have found otherwise?

Bob Burg

#10. And you dropt, lost,
When something broke
And let you from a Dream

Emily Dickinson

#11. When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Reese Hoffa

#12. When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

Alberto Giacometti

#14. You can hold any girl that you like
Fall in love when its easy at night
But you wake up wondering why
She aint ever something better
When youre lost and youve run out of road
Find what I already know
In the end close is all there is
But you wont find this

Carrie Underwood

#15. When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.

Bo Derek

#16. I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.

Nina LaCour

#17. What if I have nothing left to fight for? I say, my voice shaking.

"Then you fight until you find something to fight for. But the moment you stop fighting the current, the moment you surrender to it, that's when you are truly lost.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#18. I like to escape in the pages, you know? Sometimes, when you read something and let yourself get completely lost in the story, it makes you think your life isn't as messed up as you think it is.

C.E. Dimond

#19. Trying is something we do when we think we can't do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will.
Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City

Jemima Pett

#20. When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness ... I've lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

Mike Tyson

#21. I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

Drew Barrymore

#22. When you lost someone to addiction- and he had lost many- you lost something very precious. You watched them fall. You waited for them to hit the bottom. It was a terrible wait.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Don't be so stubborn. When you feel lost or don't get something, just come to me. I'll always be there to help." That was sweet.

Aileen Erin

#24. I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.

Flann O'Brien

#25. Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

Aunjanue Ellis

#26. Once, I lived among the Shadowhunters," Tessa said softly. "Once I might almost have seemed like a person to you."

Jocelyn looked lost, in the way that people did when they learned something so strange that the whole world seemed unfamiliar.

Cassandra Clare

#27. There's a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It's a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the street, Katya, I felt such a sensation ... I have no idea why

Joyce Carol Oates

#28. The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down ...

Mitch Albom

#29. I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and accept the loss again, relive that moment when your life changed, and you lost something dear.

R.K. Lilley

#30. If You're Disappointed Or Lost Something, Don't Stay In That Situation For Long ... Be Like Hydra Which Has Never Die Attitude ... When It Loses One Part of It's Body, It Reproduces Again ... So, Transform Your Pain To A New Birth ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#31. When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.

Josh Homme

#32. You can't wait forever for something, and then say it's too late when the time finally comes, even if every shred of incentive inside you has been lost.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#33. When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.

Mizuki Nomura

#34. In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign.
("The Wide Net")

Eudora Welty

#35. 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.

Brenda Ueland

#36. I've been searching a long time for something I think I lost.
I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Marie Lu

#37. Be happy she's crying," he said. "That's when you know they still feel something for you. The time when they look at you with dry eyes is when you've lost them.

Jessica Clare

#38. When I see my staff take a step back because I've lost my cool about something food-related, I say never apologise for your standards. If someone doesn't meet them, then you should explain that and that you want it changed. I want my staff to be like that, too.

Curtis Stone

#39. There's something inside you that knows when you're in the center, that knows when you're on the beam or off the beam. And if you get off the beam to earn money, you've lost your life. And if you stay in the center and don't get any money, you still have your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

#40. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.

Amy Tan

#41. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.

Rafael Nadal

#42. They aren't actually lost. It's more like when you misplace something in the house. Sooner or later you find it, because it was never really missing. You just didn't remember where you had left it.

Tammy Doherty

#43. If I could make the same amount of money doing standup it would be no contest. The problem is that if you do make that kind of money doing standup, it's not in clubs, it's in big auditoriums and large venues, and I really think something is lost when you do standup for a big crowd.

Joe Rogan

#44. Do you know, I had almost lost faith in the goddess? I almost stopped believing in Her. But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came.

Lev Grossman

#45. When you're that age, you sometimes have a great enthusiasm that is very deep and very narrow, and that is something that has always intrigued me
that world of the eleven-year-old that is so quickly lost.

Alan Bradley

#46. Even if there was something noble about having faith, it still hurt when you lost it.

Amanda Howells

#47. You told me one time that ... I was your compass. I gave you direction when you were lost," Ty said, nearly choking on the words. He glanced up, eyes reflecting like liquid in the low light. "Well, you were my anchor. You were something solid for me to hold onto. I wanted you to remember that.

Abigail Roux

#48. When you see something that is broken, fix it. When you find something that is lost, return it. When you see something that needs to be done, do it. In that way, you will take care of your world and repair creation.

Lawrence Kushner

#49. There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.

Barry White

#50. The feeling you get when you think of something amazing and then forget it and know that it felt amazing but you cant remember the details. Then, minutes later, you remember it again and you're so grateful because you nearly lost something, forever. Except, this time, its a person. Not an idea.

Iain S. Thomas

#51. Even when you'd lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.

Jenny Valentine

#52. The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

Michael Bloomberg

#53. It's just that I get distracted, and I get Lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days ...
... When, you know, I just want to Hide or Scream or Bleed or something, and ... All that ...

Neil Gaiman

#54. Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

Nancy Gibbs

#55. But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

Harpo Marx

#56. When I saw that show Lost I learned something. Other than one sort of big dude if you're in an airplane crash only models survive. So you know sit next to somebody pretty, but anyhow.

Billy Bob Thornton

#57. Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Aimee Mann

#58. Dear Tess, she read. This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you're feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way, Love Dad.

Liane Moriarty