Top 25 Lost Quotes of 1380 - Page 47

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

Effort, Enchanted, Lost

Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.173, Penguin

All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

James Frey

Path, Normal, Lost

James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.456, Anchor

I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway [sic] I can add them.

Hillary Clinton

Add, Berries, Lost

Source: www.independent.co.uk

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Herbert Hoover

Men, Lost, Made

The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lost Youth, Long, Youth

'My Lost Youth' (1858)

If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

Henry Rollins

Lost Love, Awful, September

Not everything was lost in the flow of time

Haruki Murakami

Flow, Lost

Silence is not lost time.

Gustavo Cerati

Silence, Lost, Lost Time

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

Gordon Lightfoot

Mistake, Advice, Getting Lost

"Sundown". Song by Gordon Lightfoot, March 25, 1974.

Blessings are not known till they be lost.

Gian Giorgio Trissino

Gratitude, Blessing, Lost

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Gertrude Stein

War, Literature, Lost

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.15, Random House

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Garth Nix

Lost, I Can, Mogget

Garth Nix (2014). “The Old Kingdom Collection: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel”, p.80, Harper Collins

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

Gail Carriger

Lost

Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.27, Hachette UK

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

Friedrich Schiller

Lost, Possession, Findings

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Modern, Lost

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

Franz Kafka

Way, Lost, Knows

Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Erica Jong

Thinking, Generations, Lost

Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.13, Penguin

I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod.

Emily Dickinson

Death, Loss, Lost

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.303, Delphi Classics

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

Emile M. Cioran

Dying, Lost, Born

Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

Ellen DeGeneres

Ferrari, Done, Lost Everything

"Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.