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Quotes including the word “lost”.

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Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Miguel Asturias

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

Bausch

Dance, dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.

Brendan Behan

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster

Calderon

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calvino

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

Thomas Eliot

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Benjamin Franklin

Lost time is never found again.

Ionesco

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

Maria Kallas

First I lost my weight, then I lost my voice and then I lost Onassis.

Laozi

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Lorca

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake.

Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Pessoa

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Marcel Proust

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

Jose Rizal

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man

Jose Rizal

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Upton Sinclair

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

Sophocles

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Tennyson

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost, love shall not;

Leo Tolstoy

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Derek Walcott

Days I have held, days I have lost, days that outgrow, like daughters, my harbouring arms.

Stefan Zweig

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.