Top 100 You Have Lost Quotes
#1. You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Paul Sweeney
#2. You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost
Oscar Wilde
#3. If you don't enjoy the moment, you have lost the moment
Roy A. Piercy
#4. One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
Jean Kerr
#5. So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#6. Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.
Goliarda Sapienza
#7. Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost ... It is what you live in.
James Glieck
#8. No, seriously,' choked Sam, his eyes streaming. 'You're such a loser, that you've actually stopped losing and have progressed to having just lost. It's over. The game is over. You have lost the game of life. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.
Lili Wilkinson
#9. If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.
Woodrow Wilson
#10. The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.
Ann Landers
#11. One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.
Kathleen Norris
#12. If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
Alexander McCall Smith
#13. You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
Abraham Flexner
#14. If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.
Elisabeth Elliot
#15. Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Robert H. Schuller
#16. It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
Bertrand Russell
#17. Do not let your thoughts take flight, flutter, and climb. Simply cleave and cling to Christ. It is imperative to remain solely with the Person of Christ. If you have that, you have all; but if you lose that, you have lost all.
Martin Luther
#18. You don't know how lucky you are, my dear. Don't waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.
Danielle Steel
#19. Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.
Sarah Dessen
#20. Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#21. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.
William Shakespeare
#22. What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.
Charles Frazier
#23. And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.
Joyce Carol Oates
#25. A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
Jenny Offill
#27. When you take action-think.
When you fail-think.
When you are in doubt-think.
When you have lost your way-think.
You are nothing but your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#28. You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose.
Diana Gabaldon
#29. The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
George Schultz
#30. No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
Rio Ferdinand
#31. The belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men'
you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain:
humility and brotherhood.
Agatha Christie
#32. This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
Orison Swett Marden
#33. But I tell you, Henri, that every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.
David Brent
#35. DURING THE FIRST PART of your life, you only become aware of happiness once you have lost it. Then an age comes, a second one, in which you already know, at the moment when you begin to experience true happiness, that you are, at the end of the day, going to lose it.
Michel Houellebecq
#36. Humility is not a one time lesson that comes when you have lost everything. It is a daily reminder of how far we have come, yet still short of who we can be through HIS guidance. Blessed is the soul that can recognize that he isn't moving mountains, but God is for him.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. For you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.
Charles Frazier
#38. Large amount of resources and more individuals in your organization do not necessarily equate to victory over your opponent if you have lost the advantage of formlessness.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#39. Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.
Lemony Snicket
#40. The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of traditional Hollywood, the code by which characters like James Stewart, John Wayne and Henry Fonda lived, has been lost.
Roger Ebert
#41. Swearing doesn't make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. This is the pain that will inform all other pains from now on. You have lost your mother. That is the primal pain, what we call it in German. There will never be another pain like this pain. You cannot ready yourself for it because it is unimaginable.
David Samuel Levinson
#43. In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#44. Think you have lost it all? You haven't. "God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty
never canceled, never rescinded" (Rom. 11:29 MSG).
Max Lucado
#45. You have lost faith in anything great; you are doomed, then, doomed to perish unless that faith returns, like a comet from unknown skies.
Friedrich Holderlin
#46. When you run out of love, it's really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you ...
Munia Khan
#47. When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
Hilaire Belloc
#49. So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.
Pope Francis
#50. I don't know how much you have lost faith in people; but you can still find someone to trust.
M.F. Moonzajer
#51. 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
#52. I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body, silent but sustaining.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#53. If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
Tullian Tchividjian
#54. All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
C.S. Lewis
#55. Even when you think you have lost yourself, love can still find you.
Sophie Kinsella
#56. I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.
Alex Ferguson
#57. It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.
Louis Nizer
#59. If you have lost a lot of time, then, increase your speed and make up for the time lost
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.
Boris Trajkovski
#61. If you have Lost something, there's always something Coming, just live by to see it.
Mohith Agadi
#62. The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.
Ram Dass
#63. Don't put your wand there, boy! What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know."
"Who d'you know who's lost a buttock?"
"Never you mind ...
J.K. Rowling
#64. When you have lost your inns, you may drown your empty selves. For you have lost the heart of England.
Hilaire Belloc
#65. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pittacus Lore
#66. Don't put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!
J.K. Rowling
#67. Memories have big value,... look back look what you have lost (For a moment)..., look what you have been making with this something or somebody... (For a moment) and look now without it... That's value, this is what robots don't have but humanity have!
Deyth Banger
#69. Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.
Mia Asher
#70. Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something."
"You have lost your mind."
"Say something less insulting.
Laura Andersen
#71. Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#72. You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. If you are far away from your lover and family, if you have lost someone, if you feel a bit displaced in your own life: these stories are for you.
Audrey Niffenegger
#74. I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
Abraham Lincoln
#76. There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.
Claire North
#77. When you resort to shouting in conflict, you are reacting in the flesh. You have lost control of the only person you can control: yourself.
Neil T. Anderson
#78. Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.
Barack Obama
#79. 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
#80. God will restore all that you have lost in your life
Sunday Adelaja
#81. Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.
Susan Fletcher
#82. I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.
Suzanne Somers
#83. A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
Louisa May Alcott
#84. If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will be precarious, because you depend on others, whose interests are not affected by your infelicity.
Patrick Henry
#85. First the flame and then the flood:
In the end it's Blackthorn blood.
Seek thou to forget what's past
First thirteen and then the last.
Search not the book of angels gray,
Red or white will lead you far astray.
To regain what you have lost,
Find the black book at any cost.
Cassandra Clare
#86. If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.
Frederick Lenz
#87. When the light has sharply faded And you have lost your way Let another's love guide you It can turn blackest night into day.
Kevin Myers
#88. To say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again.
Giorgos Seferis
#89. In the earning of things you have lost the ability to enjoy them.
Nic Kelman
#90. Soon I am seeing the blue-and-yellow flags that line the campus streets, and it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time to be back at La Salle
almost like looking at old pictures of people who have either died or with whom you have lost contact.
Matthew Quick
#91. That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
T. S. Eliot
#92. When you seek God with your intellect and your actions, God exists in you, and as soon as you decide that you have found God, and stop and become satisfied, you have lost him. - FYODOR STRAKHOV
Leo Tolstoy
#93. Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.
Rick Fields
#94. Number Two's eyes narrowed and became what are known in the Shouting and Killing People trade as cold slits, the idea presumably being to give your opponent the impression that you have lost your glasses or are having difficulty keeping awake. Why this is frightening is an, as yet, unsolved problem.
Douglas Adams
#95. Even if you feel like you have lost Him, Gavi, He hasn't lost you.
Martha Finley
#96. You will know what and who really matters to you the moment you feel you have lost them.
Shannon L. Alder
#97. At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.
Rick Pitino
#98. Modern society is hypnotized by socialism. It is prevented by socialism from seeing the mortal danger it is in. And one of the greatest dangers of all is that you have lost all sense of danger, you cannot even see where it's coming from as it moves swiftly towards you.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#99. When you are one of several, then you have lost your freedom; you cannot send for your traveling boots whenever you wish, you cannot move aimlessly about in the world. ~ Either/Or
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. To find, you have to seek. If you have lost your life direction, you probably won't find it between drinks at the local bar. Give yourself a break some time and space to examine what counts for you.
Andrew Matthews
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