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Quotes About Lost

Know ye what ye want? What ye ask? Know ye virtue from maniacal muttering? Sin from folly? Desiring a teacher, who among ye are worthy to learn? Brutally shall I teach the gospel of soul-suicide, of contraception, not preservation and procreation. Fools! Ye have made vital the belief the Ego is eternal, fulfilling a purpose, not lost to you.
~ Austin Osman Spare
Those who lose dreaming are lost.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.
~ Avril Lavine
There are enough people who lost faith in me that it's time to step aside and let there be a new voice for the 6th district in Washington, so I am not going to run for re-election.
~ Joe Barton
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
~ Anne Tyler
I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more.
~ Thierry Mugler
Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.
~ Miguel Sapochnik
Any film featuring Bradley Cooper's gorgeous blue eyes is automatically on my must-see list and they did not disappoint in 'The Words,' which is so intense and confusing that I was pretty lost by the end!
~ Gayle King
The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
~ Burt Reynolds
Movies have a way of distilling moments in our culture, and 'Gravity' may be the defining film for the lost-in-space year of 2013: Nothing works.
~ David Ignatius
I feel like a blind man searching a dark room for a pair of black socks that aren't there.
~ Garrison Keillor
If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? —Matthew 18:12 niv
~ Gary Chapman
These kinds of lost, overeducated mama's boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and the other SHYSTER.
~ Gary Shteyngart
What use, Milton, a silly story Of our lost general parents, eaters of fruit?
~ Gary Snyder
Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Find girl?" He had lost his desire to talk, but the intensity of his emotions drove the words forth. "What did he want with her!" As he spoke, the litter sped past a shop with a zither and a dusty bassoon in its window. But Caldé Silk of Viron did not see them.
~ Gene Wolfe
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?
~ George Bernard Shaw
ANARCHIST. I told you to begin by abolishing the State. Now we are all lost.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.
~ George Carlin
Like one who has lost his way and is weary, she sat and saw as in one glance all the paths of her young hope which she should never find again.
~ George Eliot
You can get yourself pretty thoroughly lost, in time and space, if you don't know where you are or where you have just come from. How is this relevant to creative writing and writing programs? First of all, there is a certain amount of misinformation masquerading as assumed history -- as the story of creative writing in America.
~ George Garrett
But I am lost in flesh, whose sugared lies, Still mock me and grow bold: Sure thou didst put a mind there, if I could Find where it lies.
~ George Herbert
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
~ Frederick Douglass
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
~ Ida Tarbell