
“Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.”
Source: Invisible Man
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“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”

“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19461026_congresso-catechistico-naz.html, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
“you have to ‘lose your mind’ before you can come to your senses.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Keith Baxter interviewed by Geoff Andrew for the British Film Institute (on the only piece of direction Welles ever gave him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qON_f32HQDk

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”
Source: The Fountainhead

“Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out…”

“All things will be in danger of being taken in a sense different from their own proper sense, and, whilst taken in that different sense, of losing their proper one, if they are called by a name which differs from their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe appreciation of properties.”
Omnia periclitabuntur aliter accipi quam sunt, et amittere quod sunt dum aliter accipiuntur, si aliter quam sunt cognominantur. Fides nominum salus est proprietatum.
De Carne Christi, 13.2

Game of thrones with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand