Lost Things Quotes

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

Douglas Coupland

Three, Cry, Found

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'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love, Funny, Life

In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?

Leslie Marmon Silko

Letting Go, Can't Let Go, Humans

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Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

Haruki Murakami

Ties, Together, Loses

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And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring to mind as many beautiful lost things as I could. Drawing them closer, holding on to them.

Haruki Murakami

Beautiful, Eye, Drawing

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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain]

Gerard Way

Missing, Mind, Bumper Sticker

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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

Ozzy Osbourne

Funny, Crazy, Missing

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So you want to hear a story? Well, I used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. Some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious, others so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. But I can't remember any of those. So I'll just tell you about the time I found that lost thing.

Shaun Tan

Laughing, Interesting, Stories

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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

Albert Einstein

Nature, Compassion, Animal

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.

Lauren Oliver

Too Late, Lost, Late

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I've lost things bigger than my music career.

Bobby Shmurda

Careers, Bigger, Music Career

"Exclusive: Bobby Shmurda and Rowdy Rebel Give First Interview Since Plea Deal". Interview with Angel Diaz, www.complex.com. September 16, 2016.

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Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

Catherynne M. Valente

Love, Song, Lonely

Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hands, Knowing, Everyday

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I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

Jonathan Swift

Moon, Advice, Forget

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays”, p.432

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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Pain, Lost Love, Sleep

Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.38

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Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow.

Cecelia Ahern

Beach, Sea, Two

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It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once and for all that everything I've believed my whole life is true, and real. Or, not even everything. Not even half. Just the part about someone or something bigger than us who doesn't lose track. I want to believe the stories, that there really is someone who would search the whole mountainside just to find that one lost thing that he loves, and bring it home.

Sara Zarr

Stars, Real, Believe

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