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Quotes About Lost

This summer has been idyllic … more than that, it's the unification of this group of formerly lost souls. It's been a syrupy lovefest for the past three months, and I wish it could last forever. I think about that stupid fucking saying, Absence makes the heart grow fonder , and I want to barf. I'm already beyond fond of everyone, so I'm all set.
~ Jessica Park
Dear Die-ary, there's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their discomfort like a favorite shirt. I can't say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can't help but look forward to where it's going.
~ Jhonen Vasquez
Is there any place we're not moving through? Disoriented, lost, at sea, at odds, astray, adrift, bewildered, confused, uprooted, turned around. I'm related to these related terms. These words are my abode, my only foothold.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
You have to be purposeful and intense to reclaim your lost years
~ Sunday Adelaja
Time lost can never be regained
~ Sunday Adelaja
I have this old-man character named Glary Oldman. His apartment was on fire, but he was stubborn about leaving because he didn't want to leave all his stuff. I have a character called Berle, who lost 19 pounds, and now he's 600 pounds and very happy about it.
~ Bobby Moynihan
A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
~ Karin Slaughter
We'll end up with a society where the people with decent self-control win back a lot of the lost health gains by better behavior.
~ Tyler Cowen
I put a thong on a few months ago trying to be sexy. I've been looking for it but ain't seen it since.
~ Tyler Perry
Don't follow me, I'm lost.
~ Unknown
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
~ Umberto Eco
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
~ Unknown
If I am missed, I may be found—by those who want to see me.
~ Vera Nazarian
the bald details of the crimes themselves were as uninteresting as stew that had lost all its meat and fish
~ Unknown
I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
~ Lucy Larcom
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
~ Louis Kronenberger
A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.
~ Unknown
Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.
~ Meister Eckhart
Children are not like us. They are beings apart: impenetrable, unapproachable. They inhabit not our world but a world we have lost and can never recover. We do not remember childhood – we imagine it. We search for it, in vain, through layers of obscuring dust, and recover some bedraggled shreds of what we think it was. And all the while the inhabitants of this world are among us, like aborigines, like Minoans, people from elsewhere safe in their own time-capsule.
~ Penelope Lively
Well, there are times when we know where people are, yes? This would not be one of those times.
~ Peter David
Boys and girls," Professor Bhegad said. "Meet Shelley." CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN THE LETHARGIC LIZARD THE MACHINE BARKED a greeting halfway between a brack and a clonk. "You lost me, Professor Bhegad," Marco said.
~ Peter Lerangis
The wildwood brings on mild nostalgia, not for home or place, but for lost innocence—the paradise lost that, as Proust said, is the only paradise.
~ Peter Matthiessen