Quotes About Lost

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.

What was a demon but a lost soul, one that had been forced to use his skills to survive.

Here lies the life I might have had once upon a time, the man I might have loved for all my life, the days we might have had.

Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.

When all was said and done, it was conceivable that a being's purpose remained the same throughout his life, and Eddie's purpose was exactly what it had been when he was a boy, to pursue the light and find what was lost. Page 87

We grew careless, as people who are lost often do.

She's reminded of the time when she would get lost on purpose and her mother would look for her, shouting her name as though calling for a lost dog. Now she burns with regret when she thinks that she hid from her own mother. She should have leapt up and waved her arms. She should have gotten into her mom's car and said, Thank you for rescuing me.

What was a dream but a way of knowing what was inside you? After all this time, they forgave each other on this morning in May when the world was green, when bees circled the laurel, when words didn't need to be spoken, when anything that had been lost could still be found.

Eddie's purpose was exactly what it had been when he was a boy, to pursue the light and find what was lost.

James had a theory about caged birds, one he hoped to prove when he became a scientist someday. He believed that all birds that had their freedom taken from them eventually lost their voices. Once that happened, they could never find their true song.

It benefited a child, she thought, to be forgotten once in a while. Lost in the shuffle (she would have said), benignly neglected.

Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?

And i was gone.

She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.

His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64

They say he "hit a square" while flying his small aircraft; a situation in which it is impossible to tell up from down or earth from sky and that he lost his way.

Your anxiety attach in the church sounds like a compromise formation. A what? Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocense. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. So the compromise is anxiety.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked... who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts...

A missle lost Unprogrammed

I needed her to show me how to live through sadness, how to make someone dinner. All I knew was how to be lost.

San Francisco is the place where most people were last seen

Good stranger, I continued, I am ill and lost. Direct me, I beseech you, to Carcosa