I literally cannot even. I can't even. I am unable to…

All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

— Douglas Coupland

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those…

— Antonio Damasio

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.

— Frederick Lenz

“I had been feeling permanently on the cusp of a flu, feeling at that point where I just wanted to borrow somebody else's coat-…

— Douglas Coupland

Because of who I am and what I've accomplished, everything is pretty much given to me. People cater to me all the time. It's…

— Ken Shamrock

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

— Michelle Beadle

“If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?”

— Evinda Lepins

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

— Matthew Hussey

I had - there were three strokes, and I lost my ability to read and write and speak, and it really put me by…

— Ntozake Shange

“He explained how once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied. There was always a quest for more…

— Mitch Albom

“We've lost our ability to live with the secrets of the world. And yet there they are before us.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It was herself she was exhausted by. She had lost the ability to keep her discrete worlds discrete—a skill that many consider to be…

— Arundhati Roy

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

— Joni Mitchell

“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.”

— Edward Luce

once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

— Mitch Albom