Lost Quotes

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one.

Species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters.

Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

Wealth, a friend, a wife, and a kingdom may be regained; but this body when lost may never be acquired again.

Everything that is not given is lost.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Half‑finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.

For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.