„How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.“

„When You've lost it all…. that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.“

—  Nikki Sixx American musician 1958

Varianta: When You've lost it all.... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.
Zdroj: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

„Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.“

—  Simone de Beauvoir French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist 1908 - 1986

Zdroj: The Woman Destroyed

„Is that the idea we now have of love? If I have a child, no matter how deformed that child may be, and if it dies, nobody can make the loss to me good by bringing a more beautiful child. I want the one I loved and the one I lost.“

—  Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899

My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Kontext: And thereupon the Lord gave Satan the power to destroy the property and children of Job. In a little while these high contracting parties met again; and the Lord seemed somewhat elated with his success, and called again the attention of Satan to the sinlessness of Job. Satan then told him to touch his body and he would curse him. And thereupon power was given to Satan over the body of Job, and he covered his body with boils. Yet in all this, Job did not sin with his lips. This book seems to have been written to show the excellence of patience, and to prove that at last God will reward all who will bear the afflictions of heaven with fortitude and without complaint. The sons and daughters of Job had been slain, and then the Lord, in order to reward Job, gave him other children, other sons and other daughters—not the same ones he had lost; but others. And this, according to the writer, made ample amends. Is that the idea we now have of love? If I have a child, no matter how deformed that child may be, and if it dies, nobody can make the loss to me good by bringing a more beautiful child. I want the one I loved and the one I lost.

„When faith is lost, when honor dies
The man is dead!“

—  John Greenleaf Whittier American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery 1807 - 1892

Ichabod, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„He is asleep. Though his mettle was sorely tried,
He lived, and when he lost his angel, died.
It happened calmly, on its own.
The way night comes when day is done.“

—  Victor Hugo French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802 - 1885

„A child miseducated is a child lost.“

—  John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963

Umaru Tanko Al-Makura on 29th July, 2013 at The Official Commissioning Of Ta’al Model School, Lafia By Nigeria's President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan where Umaru Tanko Al-Makura said: " And, because the human mind is our fundamental resource, we are determined to avail our children the opportunity to acquire the best education possible, since a child mis-educated is a child lost. http://www.spyghana.com/speech-delivered-by-his-excellency-umaru-tanko-al-makura/"
Misattributed

„The point is […] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.“

—  David Gemmell, kniha Legend

Zdroj: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 15

„You've lost your muchness.“

—  Lewis Carroll English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832 - 1898

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

„The absence of pain means death, so when something no longer bothers you, you've died to that thing.“

—  Joyce Meyer American author and speaker 1943

„You haven't lived until you've died in California.“

—  Mort Sahl American comedian and actor 1927

Miscellaneous

„How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Wuthering Heights

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.“

—  Эван Эзар

„when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans“

—  Tom Waits American singer-songwriter and actor 1949

„You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection“

—  James Buchanan American politician, 15th President of the United States (in office from 1857 to 1861) 1791 - 1868

Letter returned to him unopened, to the father of his former fiancée Ann Coleman, written after her death, rumored to have been suicide soon after her breaking of their engagement. (1819).
Kontext: You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not. Afford me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before internment.

„It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.“

—  Alice Hoffman Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952

Zdroj: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

„The light within the darkness- you've lost sight of it.“

—  Shiro Amano Japanese manga artist 1976

Zdroj: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1

„Where to look if you've lost your mind?“

—  Bernard Malamud, kniha The Fixer

Zdroj: The Fixer

„How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.“

—  Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

Enchantment (1999)

„There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.“

—  Sue Monk Kidd, kniha The Secret Life of Bees

Zdroj: The Secret Life of Bees