“Radar Officer: I've lost the sweeps, the bleeps, and the creeps! [Explains via vocal sound effects]
Dark Helmet [aside to Colonel Sandurz]: That's not all he's lost.”

“Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes…”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.”

David Almond book Kit's Wilderness

“And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”

John Connolly The Book of Lost Things

“Dark Helmet : What? You went over my helmet?”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

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

Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist

“The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.”

Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral

“Knowledge can in part be set aside, and one can then go further in order to collect new; the natural scientist can set aside insects and flowers and then go further, but if the existing person sets aside the decision in existence, it is eo ipso lost, and he is changed.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“Case officers are subject to the same embarassments any tourist suffers-snarled schedules, lost passports, lost money and luggage, and getting off the plane at the wrong destination”

John Stockwell (1937) American activist