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Quotes About Lost

There are thirteen moons every calendar year. They measure time differently on the moon. The moon orbits the earth once every 28 days As though she's looking for something she lost. A long time ago.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Would there were a festival for my fears, a ritual burning of what is coward in me, what is lost in me. Let the light in before it is too late.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It's snowing. Here I am. Lost and Found.
~ Jeanette Winterson
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice,it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As soon as anyone says of the affairs of the state 'What do I care?', the state may be given up for lost.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Romans had been content to practice virtue; all was lost when they began to study it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
city was lost in darkness now, and anyone left there was lost, too.
~ Jeanne DuPrau
I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Paris was dead. More cars, more pedestrians—except at certain hours in certain quarters. We walked between the cobblestones; it appeared that we were the forgotten members of an immense exodus. A bit of provincial life was caught on the sharp angles of the capital; it remained a skeleton city, pompous and immobile, too long and too big for us: too large, the streets that we discovered as far as the eye could see, too great the distances, too vast the perspectives: we got lost.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
~ Will Cuppy
My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
~ Gregory Maguire
All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land.
~ Janet Frame
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
~ Al Capone
Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?
~ Brian Greene
I had a dream of music and art and the big city in which I would get lost, where no one would know me and I wouldn't know anyone, where I would work at some ordinary job, and if one day I got up in the morning and decided I wasn't going to go to work anymore, no one would ask questions.
~ Ori Gersht
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.
~ Hermann Ebbinghaus
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
I think everybody can sort of relate to feeling like the outcast and feeling a bit lost and just craving somebody's attention.
~ Jaimie Alexander
The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.
~ James E. Faust
If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.
~ David Cameron
I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.
~ Tom Perrotta