Quotations About / On: LOST

  • 41.
    'Erle Dowglas, for thy life,
    Wold I had lost my hand;
    (Unknown. Chevy Chase (l. 151-152). . . Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse, The. Frederick Woods, ed. (1983) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    I think we are in rats' alley
    Where the dead men lost their bones.
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 115-116). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 43.
    For time is inches
    And the heart's changes,
    Where ghost has haunted
    Lost and wanted.
    (W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. This Lunar Beauty (l. 12-15). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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  • 44.
    Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fifth Selection, New York (1988).)
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  • 45.
    Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
    (Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life," vol. 1, ch. 4, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851).)
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  • 46.
    everything is lost,
    everything is crossed with black,
    black upon black
    and worse than black,
    this colourless light.
    (Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), U.S. poet. "Eurydice.")
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  • 47.
    Lovers, the conclusion is
    Doubled sighs and jealousies
    In a single heart that grieves
    For lost honour among thieves.
    (Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet, novelist, critic. The Thieves (l. 15-18). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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  • 48.
    Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    (Quentin Crisp (b. 1908), British author. The Naked Civil Servant, ch. 11 (1968).)
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  • 49.
    I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
    (Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author, lexicographer. quoted in James Boswell, Life of Dr. Johnson, entry, Nov. 1784 (1791).)
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  • 50.
    Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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