“I have lost everything. Lost everything.
Everything. - William Herondale”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Everything was lost except happiness.”
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French poet, screenwriter 1900–1977Related quotes
“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Lost Herondale
“All will be lost apart from happiness.”
Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter
Attributed
“Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 371
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Anthony Trollope book Barchester Towers
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27
“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”
Cecelia Ahern book PS, I Love You
Variant: We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
Source: PS, I Love You
“If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.”
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) American teacher, poet, author
Journal entry (2 March 1861), Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Context: I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
“Nothing is lost… Everything is transformed.”
Michael Ende book The Neverending Story
Source: The Neverending Story
“Everything can be inherited except sterility.”
Matt Ridley (1958) economist
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature