„I wish there was something we could do. But organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe. When it is lost, it is truly lost.“

„When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.“

—  Billy Graham American Christian evangelist 1918 - 2018

„Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.“

—  Haruki Murakami, kniha Kafka na pobřeží

„Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.“

—  Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945

„Without the church there would be no Scotland - and something important, precious and distinctive would have been lost to the world.“

—  Alex Salmond Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland 1954

„He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.“

—  Cassandra Clare, kniha City of Fallen Angels

„It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.“

—  Cynthia Rylant American author of children's books and librarian 1954

„We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan“

—  Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

„Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.“

—  Nicholas Sparks, kniha Nights in Rodanthe

„I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?“

—  Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957

„We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.“

—  Andy Goldsworthy British sculptor and photographer 1956

„To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

„Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.“

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

„They (opposition) say we are selling out Taiwan and that we lost something, but they never say what exactly we have lost.“

—  Ma Ying-jeou Taiwanese politician, president of the Republic of China 1950

„Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.“

—  Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

„The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.“

—  Janet Fitch, kniha White Oleander

„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 when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, kniha The Beautiful and Damned

„Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time,
Which are King Herod and King Herod's men,
Always and always. Life can be
Lost without vision but not lost by death,
Lost by not caring, willing, going on
Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude
To something more — something no man has ever seen.
You who love money, you who love yourself,
You who love bitterness, and I who loved
and lost and thought I could not love again,
And all the people of this little town,
Rise up! The loves we had were not enough.
Something is loosed to change the shaken world,
And with it we must change!“

—  Stephen Vincent Benét poet, short story writer, novelist 1898 - 1943

„When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.“

—  Emma Goldman anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches 1868 - 1940

„Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.“

—  Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967