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Quotes About Lost

had I but sought wisdom first, my gold would not have been lost to me.
~ George S. Clason
We've said that a story is a system for the transfer of energy. Energy made in the early pages gets transferred along through the story, passed from section to section, like a bucket of water headed for a fire, and the hope is that not a drop gets lost.
~ George Saunders
Il a suffi, il a presque suffi, un jour de mai où il faisait trop chaud, de l'inopportune conjonction d'un text dont tu avais perdu le fil, d'un bol de Nescafé au goût soudain trop amer [...]
~ Georges Perec
Dash it, coz! Been searching for you all over! Even took a look-in at the church. If I hadn't thought to ask pretty well everyone I met if they'd seen a mountain moving about on legs I might be hunting for you still!
~ Georgette Heyer
Then she sighed, released his hand and , looking at him, shook her head and whispered, Too late.
~ Gerda Weissmann Klein
That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'
~ Michael Giacchino
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
~ Vance Havner
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
~ Sydney Smith
A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
~ Jennifer Holliday
I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square!
~ David Grann
To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.
~ Sonya Walger
I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'
~ Matthew Broderick
From my personal experience, I've put on and lost weight according to each character's requirement, which has taken a toll on my health.
~ Parvathy
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.
~ Sarah Dessen
Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.
~ Sarah Hall
Noirance isn't about not being able to see. It's about not being able to find your way out of the dark. Being lost in a maze. Or being the creature in the heart of the maze who waits for the lost to come to it as they always will.
~ Sarah Monette
In fiction, characters could punch their bosses and get away with it. In real life, you lost your job, and then you were dining on Cup-a-Soup seven nights a week instead of four.
~ Sarah Morgan
Miró el oscuro cielo a través de la ventanilla y del torbellino de copos de nieve. Se sentía desconectada. Perdida. Ojalá no lo sintiera todo tan profundamente.
~ Sarah Morgan
It is in human nature to respect power; but all his manliness was at stake, and his natural rights would be degraded and lost, if he could not show his power to be greater than her own.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
She was lost. Torn between what to do. I saw it clearly in her eyes as she stared at me. I wanted to tell her to let go and be with me even if it was just one night but I couldn't. One night wasn't enough.
~ Sarah Stein
I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.
~ Sarra Manning
Dreamer lost
~ Scarlett