Lose Quotes
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We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.
Ishmael Beah
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We grow too old to lose old friends.
Beth Kephart
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As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Haruki Murakami
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The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.
Erwin McManus
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It feels like everything's been decided in advance that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense of who I am. It's like my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.
Haruki Murakami
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
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I like to watch MTV for escapist pleasure, but when I saw Snooki, I saw my twin. I couldn't lose myself in the show anymore because there I was.
Anne Hathaway
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As a sport, we lose a lot more than we win.
Ben Maher
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Don’t lose a woman that has seen your flaws and still love you.
Nizar Qabbani
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The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks
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It's hard to lose a colleague, a person who is doing the same job you're doing. But we're all here, and all the drivers know the risk and the danger of the sport. We are here because we love what we do.
Helio Castroneves
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal
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What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.
George V. Higgins
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If you lose I will kill you.
Eiichiro Oda
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I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.
Esai Morales
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I felt I couldn't lose anything else, but just then I realized I already had: I'd lost the hope that I would ever be loved in just that way again.
Melissa Bank
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Settle into mystery as you would settle into your most comfortable chair. Listen. Have visions. Lose yourself.
Eric Maisel
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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.
Andrew Jackson Downing
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I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
David Mason
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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Germaine Greer
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You have to surround yourself with friends and loved ones because they're the only ones that will fight for you. It's always a battle to get the extra feeling in there, to push it further, to lose yourself. We can't be living constantly with some numb relationship.
Eli Russell Linnetz
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I don't know what it is about these post-apocalyptic movies where it's like... people really want to see what happens and know what goes on in people's minds when they lose everything. With nothing left of what we had, do people revert back to animals or stay civilized?
Joseph David-Jones
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There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!
Edwin Lefevre
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If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
Bill Munson