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Quotes About Lost

Finally, consider your predicament a privilege in a world so shrunken that certain people refer to it as the 'global village.' The term 'explorer' has little meaning. But exploration is nothing more than a faray into the unknown, and a four-year old child, wandering about along in the department store, fits the definition as well as the snow-blind man wandering across the Khyber Pass. The explorer is the person who is lost.
~ Tim Cahill
There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles. And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter
~ Tim Dorsey
But it's no surprise; lost people everywhere and none of them accepting my free maps.
~ Tim Dorsey
We have kept the form, but lost the meaning.
~ Tim Freke
Always a big fan of the Browns, of course. No wonder how bad they lost or how much we froze to death out there, we still went to the games to watch them lose.
~ Dolph Ziggler
The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.
~ Jo Nesbo
Part of the failing of mainstream history has been a reverential air often appended to the colonial era, underpinned by a rose-tinted nostalgia for a lost empire.
~ Dawn Foster
I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.
~ Finn Jones
Relationships are so important to me. Talking to someone, listening to them, and even writing a handwritten note or giving someone a picture in a frame has become a lost art because we are inclined to just do it all through technology.
~ Natalya Neidhart
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
~ Edward Thorndike
We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can do any job I want - but I think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
~ Michelle Dockery
Opportunity just exists in the air for a few minutes. If you don't obey your gut feeling right away, you've lost your chance.
~ Ken Hakuta
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
~ Zadie Smith
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.
~ Norton Juster
We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.
~ Norton Juster
Being lost is not a matter of knowing where you are. It's a matter of knowing where you aren't.
~ Norton Juster
Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't—and I don't care at all about where I'm not.
~ Norton Juster
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago.
~ Norton Juster
Being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't—and I don't care at all about where I'm not. - Alec
~ Norton Juster
I know one thing for certain; it's much harder to tell whether you ARE lost than whether you WERE lost, for, on many occasions where you're going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.
~ Norton Juster
Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.
~ Norton Juster
The note that she struck had beaten down the doors of a closed memory; and Father Abram held his lost Aglaia close in his arms.
~ O. Henry
pag. 74 I am a tree The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.
~ Orhan Pamuk
pag. 74 I am a tree The essntial reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn. (My name is Red )
~ Orhan Pamuk