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Quotes About Lost

I have found that Lost World in the Lost and Found Columns whose gray illegible advertisements My soul has memorized world after world: LOST - NOTHING. STRAYED FROM NOWHERE. NO REWARD.
~ Randall Jarrell
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.
~ Rawi Hage
For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.
~ Hugh Grant
Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run, captured, or dead. One year after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was still on life support.
~ Peter Bergen
I hate second-guessing other lawyers because I know that I've tried and lost cases, and somebody could sit there and say, 'Should have done it this way,' and they'd have been right.
~ Scott Turow
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
~ V. S. Naipaul
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
~ John M. Ford
Anyone who knows me knows I'm geographically challenged.
~ Sonja Morgan
Too many points are being won or lost on the back of bad decisions which could cost clubs a place in the Champions League or send them down.
~ Robbie Savage
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
~ Edward Dahlberg
I've been going to 'Supernatural' conventions, so they tend to be big 'Lost' fans and big 'Supernatural' fans, but it's usually for both of those. Walking on the street, people are really, really into 'Lost.' But on the conventions circuit, it's Lucifer.
~ Mark Pellegrino
I'm sick of people who supported Trump saying, 'Get over it. You lost.' That's not how America works. We get to critique him the same way they constantly fought Obama. As long as I have a platform, I will continue to speak up because it's my responsibility.
~ Stan Van Gundy
I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
~ Steven Wright
I find Shakespeare surprisingly sexual. A lot of his language - a lot - has that kind of sexual innuendo that is at once everywhere but also kinda lost because we have our own innuendo now, our own language.
~ Renee Elise Goldsberry
A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
~ Raymond Chandler
I stopped thinking. Lights moved behind my closed lids. I was lost in space. I was a gilt-edged sap come back from a vain adventure. I was a hundred dollar package of dynamite that went off with a noise like a pawnbroker looking at a dollar watch. I was a pink-headed bug crawling up the side of the City Hall. I was asleep.
~ Raymond Chandler
He's just a lost dog," she added with a cool smile. "Perhaps you can find a home for him. He's housebroken—more or less." And
~ Raymond Chandler
The pride Kaspar had seen in his father's eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life. 'Never be afraid.' He knew that no matter what, any choice must be made fearlessly, or else all would be lost.
~ Raymond E. Feist
For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I made my first home there and had been happy, because to be alienated in one's own country, in one's own hometown, among one's kin and peers, was problematic, but nothing could be more natural than to be alienated in a foreign country, and so there I had at last naturalized my estrangement. This may be one of the underappreciated pleasures of travel: of being at last legitimately lost and confused.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because the key in survival is knowing you're lost: they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I wanted to trace the lost patterns that came before the world was broken and find the new ones we could make out of the shards.
~ Rebecca Solnit