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Quotes About Lost

Far beneath the rusty Baltimore dawn, stirrings in the maximum security ward. Down where it is never dark the tormented sense beginning day as oysters in a barrel open to their lost tide. God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again and the ravers cleared their throats.
~ Thomas Harris
Sì: vi sono alcuni che necessariamente smarriscono la strada, poiché per loro non esiste una strada giusta.
~ Thomas Mann
Du gehst und gehst … du wirst von solchem Gange niemals zu rechter Zeit nach Hause zurückkehren, denn du bist der Zeit und sie ist dir abhanden gekommen.
~ Thomas Mann
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost
~ Thomas Merton
We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
~ Thomas Merton
I understand conservatism. He is one of the genuine conservatives: he wishes to conserve not what might be lost but what is not even threatened because it vanished long ago.
~ Thomas Merton
But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn't felt it go away, as if he'd known the best moment to let go.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.
~ Thomas Pynchon
dark and be lost forever, some to edge into the fitful light of his attention whether he wanted to see them or not. Shasta had nailed it. Forget who—what was he working for anymore?
~ Thomas Pynchon
The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The history of the old Hereros is one of lost messages. It began in mythical times, when the sly hare who nests in the Moon brought death among men, instead of the Moon's true message. The true message has never come.
~ Thomas Pynchon
More than ever, I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity to cope with change.
~ Kathleen Norris
His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.
~ Kathryn Smith
Snow White: You're still lost in the forest, but lonely, lost girls like us can be rescued. You are standing on the edge of greatness. Virginia: I'm not. I'm useless. I'm a nobody. Snow White: You will one day be like me, a great advisor to other lost girls. Now stand up.
~ Kathryn Wesley
And, always, I would search for the missing children.
~ Kathy Reichs
The reggae reference was lost on Slidell, whose musical taste ran to C&W and sixties rock and roll. Barrow
~ Kathy Reichs
you. They're just looking for a door so they can come back." "Door?" MacBride was frowning, plainly
~ Kay Hooper
Atem: ...The soul of the lost king of ancient Egypt, trapped in the Millennium Puzzle for thousands of years! That is who I am. Heh heh...after all this time, it's no wonder I've forgotten everything!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost.
~ Kealan Patrick Burke
We are dreamers, shouting out in our sleep, pilgrims lost in a forest of symbols where no man can say with certainty who he is.
~ Kem Nunn
A lifetime of yearning unwound before him like some lost and endless highway.
~ Kem Nunn
There's a strange intimacy between a lost animal and the person who finds him. In terms of time, what you've shared is tiny and insignificant, but that moment is a vital pivot in the animal's life, the line between his old life and a better, new one. In some cases that fine line is the one between life and death.
~ Ken Foster
Whatever the reason for it, dropping out is a symptom of a deeper problem in the system as a whole, not the problem itself. If you were running a business and every year you lost more than a third of your customers, you might start to wonder if the real problem was them or your business.
~ Ken Robinson
Through me the way into the city of woe: Through me the way into eternal pain: Through me the way among the lost. Justice moved my maker on high Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and primeval Love. Before me nothing was but things eternal And eternal I endure. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
~ Kenan Malik