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Quotes About Lost

Is this how we discover the truth, evolve? By gathering together such unconfirmed fragments?...Will all of them who have remained incomplete and lost to me become clear and evident when I look back?
~ Michael Ondaatje
We order our lives with barely held stories. As if we have been lost in a confusing landscape, gathering what was invisible and unspoken—Rachel, the Wren, and I, a Stitch—sewing it all together in order to survive, incomplete, ignored like the sea pea on those mined beaches during the war. The greyhound is
~ Michael Ondaatje
my arms. The lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out.
~ Michael Ondaatje
She and I had lost each other long ago in those confusions and silences. But now, beside this infant, we were within an intimacy, as when sweat covered her face after a seizure and I would hug her to me. When being wordless had been best.
~ Michael Ondaatje
But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot—see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As if, when he was playing he was lost and hunting for the right accidental notes.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
~ Basil Rathbone
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
~ Faith Hill
What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.
~ Kirk Cameron
Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.
~ Joshua Jackson
There was some indecision as to when I was born. My sister said it was 1916. I'd lost my birth certificate.
~ Michael Gough
I was doing a lot of boxing through 'Lost,' thrashing a bag at least three days a week. If I had shirtless scenes, I'd do it six days a week.
~ Josh Holloway
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
~ W.B. Yeats
Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.
~ Alice Hoffman
Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.
~ Amy Dickinson
Love is the same as being lost,' says Jacques to the dark. 'Except you don't care that you're lost.
~ Jedediah Berry
I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.
~ John Clare
Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.
~ K.P. Yohannan
Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped
~ Kami Garcia
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I'm in love with the one that got away.
~ Laura Miller
Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.
~ Michael Timmins
The one thing of which we are certain, in an uncertain universe, is that energy is never lost. It is transformed, but it never disappears.
~ Beverley Nichols
It's obvious Plott doesn't have any idea where he's going.
~ Beverly Barton
One spring day Ramona had got lost, because she started out to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
~ Beverly Cleary
I hate asking directions. I am always afraid that the person I approach will step back and say, 'You want to go where? The centre of Brussels? Boy, are you lost. This is Lille, you dumb shit,' then stop other passers-by and say, 'You wanna hear something classic? Buddy, tell these people where you think you are,' and that I'll have to push my way through a crowd of people who are falling about and wiping tears of mirth from their eyes. So I trudged on.
~ Bill Bryson