When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.[Alguém quando parte é porque outro alguém vai chegar.]
When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.[Quando eu não tive nada a perder, eu tive tudo. Quando deixei de ser quem era, encontrei-me a mim mesma.]
What we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the value, then we find the virtue that possession would not show us whiles it was ours.
What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?
We have seen better days.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.[to Mr. Worthing]
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The man who fears losing has already lost.
The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains.
The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.
That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ‘Tis too cold a companion: away with ‘t!
