Lost You Quotes

• Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Travel, Character

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• Though lovers be lost love shall not.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Men, Names

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• The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

  James Jones

  Men, Honest, Illusion

  James Jones (2012). “The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle”, p.1155, Open Road Media

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• What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.

  Charles Frazier

  Life, Knowing, Goes On

  Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

  Ani DiFranco

  New York, Mean, Animal

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the blue. I myself placed her ashes in the wall. I myself saw the cathedral doors locked at six. I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

  Joan Didion

  Wall, Night, Blue

  Joan Didion (2012). “Blue Nights (Enhanced Edition)”, p.134, Knopf

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• What do you think love is - a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Hurt, Heart, Love Is

  "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld". Book by Patricia A. McKillip, 1974.

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• Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  Mitch Albom

  Regret, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Thinking, Years

  "The Notebook". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

  Shannon Hale

  Want, Kingdoms, Firsts

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you're trying to create something and you need to hang out, in not knowing, in all the cracks and spaces where you feel lost, and you need to endure them, and have new ideas come out of that emptiness, well, the Internet is what we do when we feel lost, you know? Like, you go online or you check your email when you don't know what to do next, and so it's not helpful, in that sense.

  Miranda July

  Ideas, Knowing, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Pages Turning, Ideas

  Interview with Tom Chatfield, tomchatfield.net.

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• I know I would crumble if I lost you.

  Shannon Hale

  Romantic, Lost, Knows

  Shannon Hale (2010). “Enna Burning”, p.41, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.

  Nick Flynn

  Fall, Long, Essentials

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• Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Forever, Lost, Knows

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