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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain. — Plautus

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost. — Goliarda Sapienza

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him. — Cassandra Clare

Poetry is that which is lost in translation. — Laurence J. Peter

A daughter was a battle between fathers and boys in which the fathers fought valiantly and always lost. — Ann Patchett

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment. — Jules Verne

I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good. — John Donne

The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth. — Walter Benjamin

Fuck off, I said. Which always means I've lost an argument. I started backing out of the tomb. — Rainbow Rowell

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 "lost his election". — Ambrose Bierce

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost. — Oscar Wilde

That which we give makes us richer, that which is hoarded is lost — Shota Rustaveli

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there. — Jonathan Swift

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter. — Thomas H. Cook

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it. — Julius Nyerere

And that was when she realized that laughter, which they had lost, had come back to them, and they were whole again. — Dorothy Dunnett

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. — Ferdinand Foch

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion. — Rene Magritte

Time is a storm in which we are all lost. — William Carlos Williams

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved. — Robert Bellarmine

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives. — Susan Howatch

I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors. — Harold Evans

Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility. — Henry Chadwick

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours. — Al-Ghazali

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end. — Haruki Murakami

I swear on time, which is the beginning and the end of everything, that everybody is always at lost ... — Mesa Selimovic

she asked 'you are in love what does love look like' to which i replied 'like everything i've ever lost come back to me. — Nayyirah Waheed

A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation. — Robert Frost

There is a limbo of the lost through which American males of a certain age and status almost inevitably must pass these days. — Richard Schickel

In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm. — Hannah Arendt

A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal. — Frederick Lenz

accepting his patronage as he accepted every incident of the labyrinthian world in which he had got lost. — Charles Dickens

Your eyes reflect the beauty which no one can see except that special person whose soul is lost in your love. — Debasish Mridha

[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive. — Liz Thebart

All that time is lost which might be better employed. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Sarcasm is irony which has lost its soul — Julian Barnes

The Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour. — Norman Mailer

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon

There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost. — Sophie Swetchine

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. — Neil Gaiman

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up. — Eric Metaxas

That which is imagined need never be lost. — Clive Barker

Friendship is that essence which have all flavor in it, when it is lost the taste of life becomes tasteless. — Debolina

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost. — Kevin Eubanks

This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer — Aleister Crowley

You sip the water from the same ocean in which all the hope was lost. Us — Saleem Sharma

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. — Wallace Stegner

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid. — Charles Gounod

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost — Graham Greene

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys. — Will Self

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure. — Rajneesh

Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport. — John Knowles

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. — David Dixon

Owner doesn't seek for hers which isn't lost. — Toba Beta

Master of the Dark Shadow. For I also, Niniel, had my darkness, in which dear things were lost; but now I have overcome it, I deem. — J.R.R. Tolkien

He knows
full well
what her pain
will cost.

The map
to her treasure
which he
has lost. — Kirk Diedrich

I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper. — Nick Hornby

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost. — Anne Fortier

She was lost between her head and her heart and didn't know which she needed to believe. — Madeline Martin

If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. Beneath — Julian Barnes

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up! — Michael Jordan

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated
old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor. — George William Curtis

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day. — Lili'uokalani

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost. — Plato

It is not a mistress I have lost but half of myself, a soul for which my soul seems to have been made. — Voltaire

That which is imagined can never be lost. — Clive Barker

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance. — Samuel Johnson

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. — Theodore Sturgeon

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. — James Wolcott