“Not lost, but gone before.”
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII, Line 16.
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Seneca the Younger225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) English feminist, social reformer, and author
Not lost but gone before (c. 1863).
“Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
Jenny Han (1980) American writer
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost.”
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Winter Garden
“She too had lost her luck, and known death, and gone on.”
Ursula K. Le Guin book The Eye of the Heron
Source: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 11 (p. 167)
“Gone before
To that unknown and silent shore.”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Hester (1803), st. 7.
Matteo Maria Boiardo book Orlando Innamorato
Così nel tempo che virtù fioria
Ne li antiqui segnori e cavallieri,
Con noi stava allegrezza e cortesia,
E poi fuggirno per strani sentieri,
Sì che un gran tempo smarirno la via,
Né del più ritornar ferno pensieri;
Ora è il mal vento e quel verno compito,
E torna il mondo di virtù fiorito.
Bk. 2, Canto 1, st. 2
Orlando Innamorato
“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it meant frozen, it meant
gone.”
Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones
Source: The Lovely Bones
“Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me
how little now remains”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"A Speech at the Lost-and-Found"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Could Have (1972)
Context: Gone, lost, scattered to the four winds. It still surprises me
how little now remains, one first person sing., temporarily
declined in human form, just now making such a fuss
about a blue umbrella left yesterday on a bus.
“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking