Lost Years Quotes

• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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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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• It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Years, Long, Done

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

  Shannon Hale

  Years, Cry, Lost

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

  Norton Juster

  Years, Way, Return

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.25, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Light, Years

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.118, Penguin

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• But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto accord is negotiated and put into effect, there will probably not be enough time left to stop the warming short of the point where we must not go.

  Gwynne Dyer

  Agreement, Years, Kyoto

  "Four harsh truths about climate change". www.woodstocksentinelreview.com. December 4, 2008.

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• Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

  Roscoe Pound

  Kings, Work, Government

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