--- title: "9 Word Lost Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 9 Word Lost quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Word Lost sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/anonymous-1_lost-opportunity_three-things-that-never-come-back-the-sp_1417978.jpg" --- > [Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/three-things-that-never-come-back-the-spent-arrow-the-spoken-word-the/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/anonymous-1_lost-opportunity_three-things-that-never-come-back-the-sp_1417978.jpg) > [A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cardinal-richelieu/a-single-word-has-sometimes-lost-or-won-an-empire/) [Cardinal Richelieu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cardinal-richelieu/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/cardinal-richelieu-18456_empires_a-single-word-has-sometimes-lost-or-won_1592639.jpg) > [I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/i-do-not-know-if-there-is-a-more-dreadful-word-in-the-english/) [Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/charles-spurgeon-82_baptists_i-do-not-know-if-there-is-a-more-dreadfu_846632.png) > [A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/a-trite-word-is-an-overused-word-which-has-lost-its-identity-like-an/) [Anais Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/081/anais-nin-288_coats_a-trite-word-is-an-overused-word-which-h_512272.png) > [“And" was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/and-was-the-next-word-i-lost-probably-because-it-was-so-close-to-her/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b94/jonathan-safran-foer-136_simple-word_and-was-the-next-word-i-lost-probably-be_1445728.jpg) > [“Being in the Word is Far More Important than Being in a Ministry...If You Are in a Ministry Without Being in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agu-jaachynma-n-e/being-in-the-word-is-far-more-important-than-being-in-a-ministry-if/) [Agu Jaachynma N.E](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agu-jaachynma-n-e/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc8/agu-jaachynma-n-e-15202_christianity-faith_being-in-the-word-is-far-more-important_1629556.jpg) > [“The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse "los," meaning the disbanding of an army, and this origin suggests soldiers falling out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/the-word-lost-comes-from-the-old-norse-los-meaning-the-disbanding-of/) [Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d93/rebecca-solnit-569_loss_the-word-lost-comes-from-the-old-norse-l_3179975.jpg) > [“That thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you is usually what you need to find, and finding it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-solnit/that-thing-the-nature-of-which-is-totally-unknown-to-you-is-usually/) [Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-solnit/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a22/rebecca-solnit-569_getting-lost_that-thing-the-nature-of-which-is-totall_617028.jpg) > [“Lost Things" There are many ways to understand the word lost, my love. When you were born, the last Pyrenean ibex, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-vermeersch/lost-things-there-are-many-ways-to-understand-the-word-lost-my-love/) [Paul Vermeersch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-vermeersch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da7/paul-vermeersch-141308_lost-things_lost-things-there-are-many-ways-to-under_1692615.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/word-lost/#itemlist", "name": "Word Lost Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/three-things-that-never-come-back-the-spent-arrow-the-spoken-word-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/anonymous-1_lost-opportunity_three-things-that-never-come-back-the-sp_1417978.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/anonymous-1_lost-opportunity_three-things-that-never-come-back-the-sp_1417978.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c3/anonymous-1_lost-opportunity_three-things-that-never-come-back-the-sp_1417978.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Three things that never come back: the spent arrow; the spoken word; the lost opportunity.” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cardinal Richelieu" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cardinal-richelieu/a-single-word-has-sometimes-lost-or-won-an-empire/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/cardinal-richelieu-18456_empires_a-single-word-has-sometimes-lost-or-won_1592639.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/cardinal-richelieu-18456_empires_a-single-word-has-sometimes-lost-or-won_1592639.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/cardinal-richelieu-18456_empires_a-single-word-has-sometimes-lost-or-won_1592639.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.” — Cardinal Richelieu", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word \"lost.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Spurgeon" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/i-do-not-know-if-there-is-a-more-dreadful-word-in-the-english/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/charles-spurgeon-82_baptists_i-do-not-know-if-there-is-a-more-dreadfu_846632.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/charles-spurgeon-82_baptists_i-do-not-know-if-there-is-a-more-dreadfu_846632.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/charles-spurgeon-82_baptists_i-do-not-know-if-there-is-a-more-dreadfu_846632.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word \"lost.\"” — Charles Spurgeon", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. 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The word ‘lost’ comes from the old Norse ‘los’ meaning the disbanding of an army…I worry now that people never disband their armies, never go beyond what they know. Advertising, alarmist news, technology, incessant busyness, and the design of public and private life conspire to make it so. A recent article about the return of wildlife to suburbia described snow-covered yards in which the footprints of animals are abundant and those of children are entirely absent. 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When you were born, the last Pyrenean ibex, a tawny female named Celia, had not yet lived to see the view from Torla overlooking Monte Perdido, but her great- grandsire stood on the cliffs of Ordesa, positioned on hoof-tips dainty as dimes, and he shook his impregnable skull, a coffer of brass and nobility crowned with bayonets, as though in defiance of all who dwelt in the highlands from Catalonia to Aquataine. Their kind is vanished now. Forever lost. Perdido. And when you dressed in a Girl Guide’s uniform of Persian blue on Tuesday nights, my love, in the long-lost basement of Grace United Church, to play indoor baseball and make believe that faerie magic could make you rich or important or happy, pods of baiji dolphins still swam in a river you’d never heard of and would not think about until years later, when together we would learn from the evening news that the baiji were lost, at last, from the Yangtze, and in their place there came a universal emptiness. There are many ways to understand the word lost, but it does not help to imagine a secret place where lost things go. When last I held you in my arms, my love, the West African black rhinoceros was still magnificent and still alive, but now the gentleness of your breath on my bare neck is as lost as the dusty, confident snort of that once breath-taking beast. Great strength is no protection, and neither is love. We are born, and our births are lost. We can’t go back to them. Each embrace ends with an ending. When we become, what we once thought we’d be is lost. 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