Quotes About Lost

As Proust put it, the only paradises are those we have lost.

I am scared of the way they are clinging to the French and Belgian ports, even though they've been pushed out of most of the rest of France. There is something about it that spooks me. They've lost.

So, I have no sense of direction. In some of us it is a TRAGIC FLAW, and

Wilderness remained a place of evil and spiritual catharsis. Any place in which a person feels stripped, lost, or perplexed, might be called a wilderness.

I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

S? ai geniu înseamn? s? poÈ›i digera influenÈ›ele pân? le faci pierdut? urma.

Man is not content to be man. But he doesn't know what to revert to, nor how to recover a state of which he has no clear memory. His nostalgia for it is the basis of his being, and it is by such nostalgia he communicates with all that remains of what is oldest in himself.

Have you seen this cat?

The husband who leaves nothing to desire is a lost man.

How brutal life was! How fleshly, and mundane. I was reeling, from having understood it for the first time. What was lost would never return. In its place, I now knew the smell of Chazawa-Dori in the rain.

One of the things you lost sight of when you lived in the city was the sense of how much power an individual had.

I've no idea how many young women like this there are in the world, but I kind of wonder if those oddly vague people you see in department stores during the day, women who don't quite seem to be students or people who work on their own, might not be the same. I know very well that I used to be like that myself, that I used to walk around with the same utterly unfocused look in my eye.

You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.

If you are not able to set priorities any other way, then getting lost may be the kick in the pants you have been waiting for.

You are truly, seriously lost, even though you know exactly where you are.

The life takes your self-respect. And once that's gone, well, you're lost.

I knew what it felt like to be a stray, not having a home where somebody wanted you.

Hierosolyma est Perdita

I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.

It was good to keep those things that kept life in perspective close to hand in case one forgot his reality and became lost, or drugged by riches.

I knew little of the world, as the Justice had seen, but I knew that we can lose ourselves in the parts we play and if this continues too long we will not find our way back again.

Loneliness is just a permanent fact of life. And if you buy into the illusion that you can somehow escape it, you're in for a world of hurt. Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.