“I wish there was something we could do. But organised structure is the most precious thing in the universe. When it is lost, it is truly lost.”

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”

“Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.”

“Without the church there would be no Scotland - and something important, precious and distinctive would have been lost to the world.”

“He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

“It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.”

“We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable.
-Suyuan”

“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”

“I have no sense of why I lost my freedom and if you do not know how you lost something, how can you protect it?”