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Lost Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in…
- He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He…
- Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot,…
- And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
- When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows,…
- There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for…
- Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always…
- She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.
- For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places…
- For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!
- Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere…
- He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had…
- Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--
- But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as…
- If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with…
- People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
- Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would…
More Lost Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon
- I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker