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Quotes About Lost

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.
~ Julian Jaynes
Raisins again. I like raisins, but I have a habit of losing one or two on the floor every time I eat them. I always find them later and think they are: a) a mouse turd or b) a cockroach. Then I figure out it's a raisin and sigh with relief. This pretty much happens every time I find a lost raisin.
~ Julie Halpern
He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.
~ Julie Orringer
Había tanto tiempo perdido en vos, eras de tal manera el molde de lo que hubieras podido ser.
~ Julio Cortazar
Parecía especializarse en causas perdidas. Perderlas primero y después largarse atrás como un loco.
~ Julio Cortazar
Por qué hemos tenido que inventar el Edén, vivir sumidos en la nostalgia del paraíso perdido, fabricar utopías, proponernos un futuro?
~ Julio Cortazar
acele doua puncte pierdute in Paris care merg in sus si-n jos, in jos si-n sus, faurindu-si desenul, dansand pentru nimeni, nici macar pentru ele insele, o nesfarsita figura fara rost.
~ Julio Cortazar
Quizá un día el espanto fuera más fuerte que el orgullo, si eso era orgullo. quizá un día él podría luchar desde su lado. quizá no todo estaba perdido, quizá la nueva vida llegara a ser realmente otra cosa que ese simulacro de sonrisas y de cine francés.
~ Julio Cortazar
Nada está perdido si se tiene el valor de proclamar que todo está perdido y hay que empezar de nuevo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Never had the opportunity in her first lost childhood; and in the intervening years her desire for it had doubled over and doubled over like a katana being forged until finally it was sharper than the truth.
~ Junot Diaz
Hey, tell me, when did this conversation go completely whoosh?
~ Justin Richards
North-ish." A pause, and then: "Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?
~ Justina Chen Headley
It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is lost to God, that which has set itself apart and refuses to return, believing itself to be in exile.
~ K.J. Bishop
Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.
~ K.J. Bishop
Witnesses are, of course, ambivalent; some of them need record what would otherwise be lost and go to waste, while others need to hunted down and killed before they cant tell what they know; and the man who stands on the grave of the last witness own the truth and is responsible for it, a dangerous trustee.
~ K.J. Parker
Oh beloved, seeking and searching the seeker is lost. And the ocean has fallen into the dewdrop; now it is impossible to find it.
~ Kabir
Where Dreams Don't Cry MS. FREEMAN: Naomi, You're lost in dreams today, Tell me, Tell me, Where do you stray? NAOMI: A galaxy far from our Milky Way, I'm journeying, journeying, there today. Where stars shine forever, And dreams don't cry, And our grandfathers Never ever die.
~ Kalli Dakos
'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.
~ G. Willow Wilson
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
~ Carlton Cuse
I think my lack of 'Pokemon' knowledge and complete confusion at the descriptions makes people think I'm adorable, like a lost baby duckling or your grandmother trying to use an iPad.
~ Noelle Stevenson
Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.
~ Francis Parkman
Life is a relentless expulsion from where we come from and an ongoing deportation to alien realms. We are in exile and our greatest dream is to return to the lost land. It is the greatest dream because no matter how long our exile is going to last, the dream will remain. It is the greatest dream because when we finally care only for this dream, then our exile will be over.
~ Franco Santoro
it myself!" These are the words that I would hear from my grandson when, as a toddler, he would try to pour juice from a large container into a cup. Grownups aren't much different. It is a well-documented fact that no one of my gender will ever ask for directions. I'm not lost. I can find it myself.
~ Frank Gallinelli
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune