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Quotes About Lost

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day.
~ Erik Larson
The dandy cleans his monocle every day, a silver monocle with a lens of smoked gold, given him by a beautiful lady but, suddenly overcome with sadness, he has lost the monocle case.
~ Erik Satie
Spade gestured, and his pale wrist caught my eye. His fourth and fifth fingers stood delicately apart from the other three. It was a hand so faultless, so unaware of itself and almost innocent, I felt his mythos transform into pathos. Here was the lost boy himself. I felt my heart squeeze a bit. This is a dangerous dude, I reminded myself.
~ Erika Schickel
Right." Oh my God, I was already lost. Wait. I had never been found. "But
~ Erin McCarthy
has lost the only audience for whom the plot in which he was performing was valid. He is left in the hopeless despair of the actor who knows only one set of lines and loses the one audience who wants to hear it
~ Ernest Becker
These are the only genuine ideas: the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce. He who does not really feel himself lost, is without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.
~ Ernest Becker
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
~ Ernest Hemingway
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
~ Ernest Hemingway
The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In writing there are many secrets too. Nothing is ever lost no matter how it seems at the time and what is left out will always show and make the strength of what is left in.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with? Would it not be the same in anything? Who else
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have never seen a man who lost the blood from his face so fast, and I wondered where it went
~ Ernest Hemingway
Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together.
~ Ernest Hemingway
sentía la soledad de muerte que llega al cabo de cada día de la vida que uno ha desperdiciado.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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~ Ernest Hemingway
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life
~ Ernest Hemingwayming
The warrior remembers but does not look back. The future is coming from only one direction and that's forward. The warrior has learned that if their mind is lost in the past, they will lose their future.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing His name.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
In a shadowy place something white flew up. It was a heron, and it went away over the dark treetops. William Wallace followed it with his eyes and Brucie clapped his hands, but Virgil gave a sigh, as if he knew that when you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign. (The Wide Net)
~ Eudora Welty
Ye glow-worms, whose officious flame To wand'ring mowers shows the way, That in the night have lost their aim, And after foolish fires do stray; Your courteous lights in vain you waste, Since Juliana here is come, For she my mind hath so displac'd That I shall never find my home.
~ Andrew Marvell
M? tulbur? atât de tare, încât nu îmi voi mai g?si niciodat? locul.
~ Andrew Marvell
There were light moments in response to hecklers. 'What would be the consequence if this seat were lost to Liberalism and to Free Trade?' he asked his audience rhetorically. When someone shouted out 'Beer!', Churchill immediately replied, 'That might be the cause. I am talking of the consequence.
~ Andrew Roberts
Between a battle lost and a battle won,' Napoleon had said on the eve of the battle of Leipzig, 'the distance is immense and there stand empires.
~ Andrew Roberts