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Quotes About Lost

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
~ Clive Owen
that fell through the cracks.
~ Unknown
what we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.
~ Hermann Bahr
No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.
~ Hermann Broch
This is not to say that "what we do" is tantamount to "who we are," but for most of us, work is an important source of personal meaning and social definition. Work activities and relationships are tightly woven into the fabric of our lives. In fact, work often provides the defining framework within which we set priorities and make decisions about other important facets of our lives. It is no wonder we feel so lost when that framework is in question.
~ Herminia Ibarra
The dead wander the lanes of the next life like strangers lost in Venice.
~ Hilary Mantel
So you may say, Greek flower; Greek ecstasy Reclaims Forever One who died Following Intricate Song's lost Measure.
~ Hilda Doolittle
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there ' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
~ Hillary Clinton
It was all so long ago and Stalin doesn't matter any more. Stalin lost his chic before you were born. Sex is always chic.
~ Unknown
That's smart,' Justin said, thinking of Theseus picking his way through the Minotaur's lair, unwinding Ariadne's string behind him. Thinking of how his heart had pounded when he was lost in the stacks. It wasn't just smart, it was clever, even classical. He wished he'd thought of it.
~ Holly Black
Unless he turns his clothes inside out, which I am fairly confident he doesn't know to do, he'll never find us.
~ Holly Black
The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.
~ Lewis Sperry Chafer
Hooray!" said her mother. "I'm so glad you've lost your memory. This accident is going to turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
~ Liane Moriarty
If God had a supervisor, she would have sent off one of her famous letters of complaint a long time ago. "You have lost me as a customer.
~ Liane Moriarty
Dear Tess, she read. This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you're feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way, Love Dad.
~ Liane Moriarty
Dear Tess", she read. "This is probably a silly gift for a girl. I never did know the right thing to buy you. I was trying to think of something that would help when you are feeling lost. I remember feeling lost. It was bloody awful. But I always had you. Hope you find your way. Love, Dad." Tess felt something rise within her chest. I guess it's quite pretty, said Lucy, taking the compass and turning it this way and that.
~ Liane Moriarty
And since Ive lost you, Im lost too.
~ Lil Wayne
Who are we? That is the first question. It is a question almost impossible to answer. But we all agree that the busy self occupied in our daily activities is not quite the real self. We are quite sure we have lost something in the mere pursuit of living.
~ Lin Yutang
Totisesti on olemassa hetkiä, jolloin elämä on meille liian suurta, jolloin kaikki tyynni on liitossa meitä vastaan pettääkseen ja tuhotakseen toiveemme; silloin ihminen on kuin kulkija, joka on metsässä kadottanut suuntamerkit tai joutunut maanalaiseen luolaan, missä törmää kivimuuriin, kääntyipä minne hyvänsä.
~ Lin Yutang
I lacked both community and purpose.
~ Unknown
Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.
~ Linda Hogan
A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.
~ Linda Howard
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
~ Lindsey Graham
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation? You build up hope, but failure's all you've known Remember all the sadness and frustration And let it go. Let it go
~ Unknown