Quotes About Lost

We all lose our way. Sometimes it just takes somebody else to find us and bring us back. Remind us.

I opened the card. It read: SO YOU CAN FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO ME. I opened the box. It was a lensatic compass. You said, "Read the back." I turned it over. It was engraved. MY TRUE NORTH. You hung it around my neck and whispered, "Without you, I'd be lost.

the government establishes an inquiry office as a guide to the city and a complete stranger refuses to use its services, he is to blame if he gets lost.

Time just gets away from us.

We have a fictional "I" that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game. "What will happen? How will it go? Will I get something out of it?" I, I, I—it's a mind game of illusion, and we are lost in it.

if we center our efforts on war prepa­rations, we cannot build what we want, we cannot devote ourselves to creative work. All work, all capital invested in preparing for military action, is labor lost, money lost. Unfortunately, it has to be done, because others are preparing. But the money I am most saddened to see leave the National Bank coffers-and I say this with all honesty and pride as a soldier-is money to pay for some weapon of destruc­tion.

I was lost but I was not afraid,

Against my will I stand beside my own reflection It's haunting how I can't seem To find myself again

he found nothing but a matchbook from a motel in Liberal, Kansas.

All Hungarians are supposed to be descendants of a lost tribe of Martians who came to colonize the earth. That's why their language has nothing in common with other European languages.

"We've taken the world apart," she says, "but we have no idea what to do with the pieces…"

The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was.

I had met him, the New Mortal, baffled and lost, but I was a phantom Helen and he was Achilles' ghost.

If he did not stop smiling, people would think he was drunk or had lost his wits, he mused, but he could not seem to stop. Just the thought of Bridget carrying his child had him grinning like an idiot.

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself turn to bones.

Then would come the remembering again, and the knife would be lost again while she (Gertie) sat helplessly fumbling, once more far from the man in the wood, tossed and whirled about as she was in the ringing, roaring fury." The Dollmaker, Harriette Arnow, p 418

one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people

But we can only be evolved in the same context in which we were lost—that is, in relationship. We are born into relationship. Our personalities are formed by relationship. And, we are healed in relationship. Relationship holds both the evidence of our injuries and the means of our salvation. It's the way we become who we are.

They had lost two weeks of dance lessons over that Great Rosebush and Snowball Scandal.

we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal finds herself a little lost.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

but it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs--all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram...