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Quotes About Lost

I fear you will be understood only by those who wear the helpless smile of people who have lost themselves in the dark wood
~ Osip Mandelstam
As a saint, my life's spiritual honor and duty is to fulfill my debt to Christ in relation to these lost souls.
~ Oswald Chambers
Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.' " Matthew 28:18–19 The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to look on our Lord as one who assists us in our endeavors for God. Yet our Lord places Himself as the absolute sovereign and supreme Lord over His disciples.
~ Oswald Chambers
The goal of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful or to win the lost. A missionary is useful and he does win the lost, but that is not his goal. His goal is to do the will of his Lord.
~ Oswald Chambers
The things is," she said at last, " sometimes people can come back and still be lost.
~ Unknown
From the beginning, our lives lay down clues to selfhood and vocation, though the clues may be hard to decode. But trying to interpret them is profoundly worthwhile—especially when we are in our twenties or thirties or forties, feeling profoundly lost, having wandered, or been dragged, far away from our birthright gifts.
~ Parker J. Palmer
To some, madness can be seductive, a way of getting back, of getting even. The only problem is, you can get lost forever.
~ Unknown
I feel like I'm lost in an anime movie" I said, as Coyote picked the thing up. "One of the tentacle-monster ones." Most of them were X-rated and ended up with a lot of dead people.
~ Patricia Briggs
I liked Lost in Space," Stefan said. "The movie or the TV series?" "The movie? Right. I had forgotten about the movie," he said soberly. "It was better that way.
~ Patricia Briggs
She wondered where things went to when you forgot them. Perhaps it meant that her memory was not gone but was merely sleeping. Perhaps it would come again suddenly and she would remember all those things which she had forgotten.
~ Patricia Wentworth
First of all, one is either a panicker or one isn't, and the occasion of being lost is no time to start fretting about a flaw in one's character. My own theory holds that it is best, if one is a panicker, to get the panic out of the system as quickly as possible
~ Unknown
I fell asleep among the beer mugs and when I woke, I couldn't think where I was.
~ Unknown
All was strange in a fog, buildings grew vague, human beings groped and became lost, the landmarks, the compass points, by which they navigated melted into nothingness and the world was transfigured into a country of the blind. But if the sighted became blind, then the blind - and for some odd reason I have always regarded myself as one of the blind - the blind became sighted, and I remember felling at home in the fog, happily at ease in the murk and gloom that so confused my neighbors.
~ Unknown
He had written this book only in the hope that she might get in touch with him. Writing a book, for him, was also a way of beaming a searchlight or sending out coded signals to certain people with whom he had lost touch. It was enough to scatter their names at random through the pages and wait until they finally produced news of themselves.
~ Patrick Modiano
In big cities, in the summertime, people of long since lost track of each other or who don't even know each other meet one evening on the terrace, and lose each other again. And none of it really matters.
~ Patrick Modiano
So they would't suffer too much from hunger, they slept and rested in bed for as long as they could. They lost all notion of time, and if Brossier hadn't come back they would never have left that room, not even the bed, where they listened to music and little by little drifted off. The last thing they saw from the outside world were the snowflakes falling all day on the sill of the open window.
~ Patrick Modiano
All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.
~ Patrick Modiano
He was haunted by what he called "fixed points." In this uninterrupted stream of women, men, children, and dogs that pass by and end up lost from sight among the streets, it would be nice to hold on to a face once in a while.
~ Patrick Modiano
Ces après-midi d'été où vous ne savez plus très bien en quelle année vous êtes.
~ Patrick Modiano
Marty: Dad's right about you. You got lost on your journey somewhere. Adam: That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place.
~ Patrick Ness
You got lost on your journey somewhere." "That's what everyone says who never bothered to go on a journey in the first place.
~ Patrick Ness
To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If I got lost along the way I had a compass that I had found embedded in a pile of wet leaves I was kicking my way through. The compass was old and rusted but it still worked, connecting the earth and stars. It told me where I was standing and which way was west but not where I was going and nothing of my worth.
~ Patti Smith
Lisbon is a good city to get lost in. Mornings in cafes scribbling in yet another notebook, each blank page offering escape, the pen serving, fluid and constant. I sleep well, dream little, simply exists within an uninterrupted interlude.
~ Patti Smith