Losing Quotes

2661 Losing quotes by 1801 unique authors

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. — Ken Wilber
If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial. — Joseph Campbell
The woman that deliberates is lost. — Joseph Addison
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may… — Joseph Addison
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore; The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore! — John Greenleaf Whittier
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. — John Milton
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. — John Milton
And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's… — John Donne
Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ. — Henry Allen Ironside
Many things are lost for want of asking. — George Herbert
For tyme y-lost may not recovered be. — Geoffrey Chaucer
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. — Edward Thomas
Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one. — Stuart Duncan
All the fish needs is to get lost in the water. All man needs is to get lost in Tao. — Zhuangzi
Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance… — Christopher Smart
It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better… — Carlos E. Asay
God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but… — Boyd K. Packer
In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President.… — Bob Dole
It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts. — Bertrand Russell
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why! — Bertolt Brecht
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got… — Athenaeus
It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy! — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce
LOSS, n. Privation of that which we had, or had not. Thus, in the latter sense, it is said of a defeated candidate that he… — Ambrose Bierce

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