Quotes about lost
Jojo Moyes - After You
I want to tell him that I don't know what i feel. I want him but i'm frightened to want him. I dont want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else's to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control.
M.F. Moonzajer -
I don’t know how much you have lost faith in people but you can still find someone to trust.
Sanhita Baruah -
There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing neither of them was a lie.
D. Antoinette Foy -
The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you've done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don't have to find yourself you just have to let yourself in.
Anne Hillman - The Dancing Animal Woman
I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths to know that our lives are sacred that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all the we can be. A longing for what is real.
Albert Camus -
So we are steaming along without any landmark we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.
Nanette L. Avery -
Elsewhere is within a good place to look if you’re lost…
Felix Wantang - Face to Face Meetings With Jesus Christ 2 (Read Chapter One): Preparing for God's Paradise
A lost sheep needs a shepherd to find the way if you don't believe you are a lost sheep then you will always want because you will never find the way. Psalm 23:1.
Munia Khan -
Slogans seem to be dead this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy
Shannon L. Alder -
An insecure woman chases love a confident woman invites a man to find her.
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal
My heart is lost the beasts have eaten it.
Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel
There was existence in oblivion there is you in oblivion.
John Yoo -
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
Winston Churchill -
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Monica Seles -
I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.
Paul Reiser -
And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.
Sophocles -
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
Rose Leslie -
Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Zygmunt Bauman -
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.
Jim Jeffords -
This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.
Carl Sandburg -
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Shirley Chisholm -
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Anthony T.Hincks -
When you're lost in space it's time to buy some new furniture!
Henry Lawson -
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Samuel Butler -
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Laurence J. Peter -
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
Leo Buscaglia -
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Mike D -
I'm really kind of a little bit romantic for the lost era. There's a lot of us that are - kind like James Murphy, same thing - we feel like it's this magic era that happened before us. And it wasn't even necessarily disco.
Steve Erickson -
Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'
Angelina Jolie -
Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
Maya Angelou -
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.
Kelly Preston -
I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
Christopher McCandless -
No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.
William Lloyd Garrison -
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Howard Dean -
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
Sophocles -
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Ryan Holiday -
It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.
Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream
Blames create no change winners don't apportion blames only losers have the potentials to do that!
John Green - Looking for Alaska
How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?
Unknown -
Fallen flowers can't climb back. If the root is strong, we can expect new flowers. Don't think too much about the 'lost' past. Just love the present & live for the future. From the tree, I learn, Make your roots strong. There will never be shortage of flowers
Justine Picardie -
There are times in one's life when a good book—the right book—feels like a voice speaking in the darkness,reaching out from the past;providing solace when all else seems lost.
Anthony Liccione -
There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.
Derek Sivers -
You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excitesyou and what scares you everyday, not bytrying to find your passion.
Masaru Emoto - Secret Life of Water
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
Jennifer Niven - American Blonde
I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?
Tim Relf - Stag
In that moment, I felt differently to myself yet the essence of who I really was.Like a perfect state of balance.
Caroline Hanson - Love Is Mortal
Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.
Pavitraa Parthasarathy -
When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself.
Paulo Coelho - The Zahir
This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn - Firsts
I’m so used to planning for guys, dressing and undressing for them and trying to morph myself into their dream girl. I’m so used to it that I don’t really know where that girl ends and the real me begins. I suppose what it comes down to is confidence. I’m confident in that girl, the one who emerges from my walk-in wearing lingerie when I’m done getting ready. But at Faye’s house, I’m not going to be that girl. I’m going to be me. Whoever that is anymore.
Grace -
We don't have to always win,Sometimes we need to be deprived by others to improve ourselves.
Nina LaCour - Hold Still
My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
Nina LaCour - Hold Still
Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.
Nina LaCour - Hold Still
My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her. It’s so wrong so completely and painfully wrong, that I walked through my front door tonight smiling.
Nina LaCour - Hold Still
When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.
Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice
And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
If you see yourself as other people see you, it means you are lost, you don't know yourself and you have closed down a world class university of diligence!
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
To maintain your integrity, be a person who does not violate the principles of the truth. Vote for truth even if you have to vote alone; believe it "your vote will not be lost"!
Elizabeth Craft - Bass Ackwards and Belly Up
Whatever her dream was, it rested somewhere in the most vague of directions.
Charles Lee - The Way To Dawn: End of Days
As I walked with my arms crossed to keep warm, I felt myself going numb. How long was I gone, I wondered. A few hours? Minutes? Days? There was no way to know. Maybe I was locked in that darkness all along and just woke from my dream... A marvelous dream.
Shaikh Ashraf - Love & Sacrifice
I had lived a life, I had dreamt of, but I have lost a loved one.” Ashwin
Alice Hoffman - The River King
He had appeared beside her because she had wanted him to. She had called him to her, and was calling him still. Even when she fell asleep, she dreamed of water, as if the world were topsy-turvy and everything she cared about had been lost in the deep. She plunged through the green waves with her eyes wide open, searching for the world as she'd known it, but that world no longer existed; everything that had once been solid was liquid now, and the birds swam alongside the fish.
Sangu Mandanna - The Lost Girl
But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.
J.A. Redmerski - The Edge of Never
I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
Not all those who wander are lost.
Lik Hock Yap -
Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.
Charlotte Eriksson - Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.
Embee - Tess Embers
I’m fine. I’m at an antique store, by the clothes store just a mile or so from-” “Which clothes store, Tess? If you haven’t noticed, there are about a million.
Tracy Johnston - Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo
Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.
Beatrice Rose Roberts - Twin Loyalties: From the Chronicles of Tar Ponds City
Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.
Munindra Misra - PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.
Emma Cline -
How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.
Nirav Sanchaniya -
Touch my song with your lips, make it immortal,be my beloved, make my love immortal.No restriction of age, not the bond of lives,when someone love should see only the soul,by carving new trend, make the trend immortal.Loneliness of the sky is in my lone heart,with rattleing paayal enter into my life,by giving own breaths make the music immortalmake the music immortal, make my song immortal.World snatched from me, whatever was beloved to me,all won from me, I lost at every moment,by losing your h
Steven Wilson -
We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear.
Richard Ayoade - The Double
I have all these things that I want to say to her, like... Like how I can tell she's a lonely person, even if other people can't. Cause I know what it feels like to be lost and lonely and invisible.
M.C. Frank - No Ordinary Star
So you say there is no Father Christmas, You say there is no Santa Claus Reindeer cannot fly, it's all a grown-up lie...
Lorna Jane Cook - Outside Wonderland
The human spirit, padded in ignorance, is a wondrous thing. They move within their own orbits- each of the seemingly lost, or intentionally lost in his or her own endeavors- while shifting into and out of one another's lives.
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!
Gerald Morris - The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
Wouter Van Gastel -
War doesn't have heroes, it only has the men who lost so many things in their life that they just keep going and do the most unthinkable things, just because they don't care anymore.
Enock Maregesi -
People speak broken Swahili on purpose. Business people for instance will speak Sheng – a mixture of Swahili and English – because that’s what people want to hear. And what is the government doing? They speak broken Swahili most of the time. Swahili is getting lost and I am really sorry for the future generations.
Jim George -
Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.
James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of premarital sex. The monster has been released. You've lost your virginity and may have been sexually active for years. Perhaps you've been carrying a load of guilt for doing what you knew was wrong.
Mary Kate -
One of the most amazing things that we often forget is this: God never forgets us! Face it; you could hide under a rock, BUT, God will still be beside you saying, "Rock bottom, already?
Diana Abu-Jaber - The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.“Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.
Moonshine Noire -
I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you're lost in your universes.
GoodQuotes -
Look at the stars. It won't fix the economy. It won't stop wars. It won't give you flat abs, or even help you figure out your relationship. But it's important. It helps you to remember that you and your problems are both infinitesimally small and conversely, that you are a piece of an amazing and vast universe.
Beth Revis - Shades of Earth
The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.Wind whistles through the trees nearby. Birdsong weaves in and out of the sound.The hybrids emerge from the communication building, heads tilted to the sky.And then we see the end.Godspeed’s engine was nuclear; who knows what fueled the biological weapons. But the
Anonymous -
Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..
Sanhita Baruah -
It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..
Anna Funder - Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did scream, so loudThat this land howled back at meAs hideouslyAs it builds its houses.In this landI have been sownOnly my head sticksDefiant, out of the earthBut one day it too will be mownMaking me, finallyOf this land.-Charlie's poem
Stephanie Barron -
The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time