"lost" in the Big Book

Many people lost money—but some became very rich.

I had developed a theory that most people lost money in stocks through ignorance of markets.

I found a job; then lost it as the result of a brawl with a taxi driver.

I admitted for the first time that of myself I was nothing; that without Him I was lost.

He has lost

The fact is that most alcoholics, for reasons yet obscure, have lost the power of choice in drink.

We alcoholics are men and women who have lost the ability to control our drinking.

We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones.

Whether such a person can quit upon a nonspiritual basis depends upon the extent to which he has already lost the power to choose whether he will drink or not.

His family was re-assembled, and he began to work as a salesman for the business he had lost through drinking.

We have not lost everything in life through drinking and we

Yet, in other moments, we found ourselves thinking, when enchanted by a starlit night, “Who, then, made all this?’’ There was a feeling of awe and wonder, but it was fleeting and soon lost.

if the rest of the world would only behave; the outlaw safe cracker who thinks society has wronged him; and the alcoholic who has lost all and is locked up.

They only thought they had lost their egoism and fear; they only thought they had humbled themselves.

He saw that he had to place the outcome in God’s hands or he would soon start drinking again, and all would be lost anyhow.

He is straining every nerve to make up for lost time.

Here were three exceptional men lost to this world because I did not understand alcoholism as I do now.

We all had to place recovery above everything, for without recovery we would have lost both home and business.

He lost the race by only a narrow margin.