Lost

Famous quotes containing the word lost:

“Not for me the glad tidings of forthcoming salvation; everything is lost and I so want to live.”
—Ester Wajcblum (1924–1945)

“Half-opening her lips to the frost’s morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September!
How audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the spring’s greeting on her lips;
to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostess’s breast.”
—Afanasi Fet (1820–1892)

“Was there ever a cause too lost,
Ever a cause that was lost too long....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)