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Quotes About Lost

I've wandered for many years... So much that I'm unsure where home even lies.
~ David Maine
He stumbled and told the truth one night: workers had lost protections under WorkChoices.
~ David Marr
A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets, And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mint Had bundled itself in a stole of gray lint.
~ David Rakoff
No matter how angry I get, it always comes down to this: I'm going to leave and then what? Move in with my dad? Thirty minutes of pure rage, and when I finally spot him I realize that I've never been so happy to see anyone in my life. "There you are," I say. And when he asks where I have been, I answer honestly and tell him I was lost.
~ David Sedaris
The corners now constitute a world apart, a rock-hard subculture formed in the crucible of lost America.
~ David Simon
a wandering corpse, a bundle of mindless functions
~ Yann Martel
We're lost, but we're making good time.
~ Yogi Berra
She sensed in him loneliness, hunger for the sound of a voice. She had heard her uncle speak of the loneliness of lonely camp-fires and how all men working or hiding or lost in the wilderness would see sweet faces in the embers and be haunted by soft voices.
~ Zane Grey
Likewise he believed that men wandering or lost in the wilderness often reversed that brutal order of life and became noble, wonderful, super-human.
~ Zane Grey
If God don't think no mo' 'bout 'em then Ah do, they's a lost ball in de high grass.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
1950s education didn't agree with me. I was totally lost.
~ Robert Ingpen
I know 'Lost' used to drive people mad trying to anticipate what was happening or what something meant.
~ Terry O'Quinn
I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
~ Kate Moss
I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'
~ King Krule
Yet, if you have a heart, lock it carefully away like a treasure; do not let any one suspect it, or you will be lost; you would cease to be the executioner, you would take the victim's place.
~ Honore de Balzac
El «Et nunc et semper et in secula seculorum» de la liturgia es la divisa de estos sublimes poetas desconocidos, cuyas obras constituyen magníficas epopeyas creadas y perdidas entre dos corazones.
~ Honore de Balzac
No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man who'd leave Amelia, you never knew me at all.
~ Hope Larson
We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.
~ Horace Bushnell
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
~ Horace Mann
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
~ Horace Mann
How many souls have been lost for lack of earnestness, solemnity, and love in the preacher, even when the words uttered were precious and true!
~ Horatius Bonar
What happens to a wanderer?" Moses asked Neph. "Does he ever come home?" And Neph answered ruefully that wanderers were those who sought their home – not those who left it. The cryptic intent was not lost on Moses, and when Neph asked him how he felt, he replied, "I am a stranger here.
~ Howard Fast
Do not think us as traffic cops, or even driving instructors. Think of us instead as your onboard navigation system, available day or night, a friendly voice to turn to whenever you look up, lost and afraid, and think "How the fuck did I end up here?
~ Unknown
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.
~ Unknown