We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

“I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around…

— Kimberly Novosel

You're wrong," I told her. "I lost that faith a long time ago." She looked at me as I said this, an expression of…

— Sarah Dessen

That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think that’s…

— Chevy Stevens

“I thought I told you to get lost.'... 'And I don't ever want to see you again-- got it?' It was not that Ruslan…

— Georgi Vladimov

I told you that you lost me but I was never really found.

— Anonymous

“I’m not in the Scouts anymore,” I remind her. Mr. Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and it took…

— David Mitchell

“The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost,”

— Walter Isaacson

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

— Leo Tolstoy

I've been told that my biggest enemy is me.

— Max Fried

“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur sticking out?…

— Walker Percy

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of…

— Hélène Cixous

“But in the parent department, he had won the lottery. So, he'd always known that when he finally told them, they'd make him feel…

— John Corey Whaley

“What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell…

— Juliet Marillier