Lost Quotes

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

~ Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet he also cautions, Wherever the notion of paradise exists, so does the idea that it was lost. Paradise is always in the past. The title Goat Song is a literal rendering of the Greek word traghoudhia, tragedy. Reading it, I was reminded of Leo Marx's analysis of Thoreau's Walden. In The Machine in the Garden, Marx names Thoreau a tragic, if complex pastoralist. After failing to make an agrarian living raising beans for commercial trade (although his intent was always more allegorical than pecuniary), Thoreau ends Walden by replacing the pastoral idea where it originated: in literature. Paradise, Marx concludes, is not ultimately to be found at Walden Pond; it is to be found in the pages of Walden.

~ Heather Paxson

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

~ Patrick Carman

I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

~ Gerald Morris

There is a core difference between sharing the gospel with the lost and imposing a specific moral standard on the unconverted.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Acknowledging that sometimes, often at very crucial times, you really have no idea where you are going or even where the path lies. A the same time, you can very well know something about where you are now (even if it is knowing that you are lost, confused, enraged or without hope).

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.

~ Anthony Liccione

It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

~ Flora Rheta Schreiber

Edith’s clothes were flung in disarray on the floor beside the bed, the covers of which had been thrown back carelessly; she lay naked and glistening under the light on the white unwrinkled sheet. Her body was lax and wanton in its naked sprawl, and it shone like pale gold. William came nearer the bed. She was fast asleep, but in a trick of the light her slightly opened mouth seemed to shape the soundless words of passion and love. He stood looking at her for a long time. He felt a distant pity and reluctant friendship and familiar respect; and he felt also a weary sadness, for he knew that he would never again be moved as he had once been moved by her presence. The sadness lessened, and he covered her gently, turned out the light, and got in bed beside her.

~ John Williams

It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.

~ Susan E. Isaacs

When you’re lost there’s nowhere to go but forward. One step at a time – and the way will show itself.

~ Sam J. Charlton

Must you always speak with so many pop culture references?I must, yes, but no one's making pop culture anymore, so I'm starting to feel dated. I haven't seen a new movie in two years. And you know what else I just realized?The doctor stared a

~ Peter Clines

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

~ Jack Kornfield

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

~ Angela Carter

Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,  One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!

~ Robert Browning

Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.

~ J.d. Salinger

If Sean's voice is layers of wood, and Mina Ma's is the voice a copper pot, then Mathew Mercer's is the voice of a wild animal. I suddenly think of a movie Ammara and I loved when we were little, and I think of Scar, the lion who murdered his brother to become king. That kind of voice.

~ Sangu Mandanna

North-ish. A pause, and then: Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?

~ Justina Chen

Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.

~ Julia Green

See you in another life, brotha.

~ Desmond Hume

Too much has been given and too much has been lost.

~ Harley King

I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.

~ Steven Herrick

I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.

~ Ashley D. Wallis

It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In order to become lost, one must not be able to realize their own identity, ego, and self.

~ Lionel Suggs

We are sorry about the way things turned out. We gave, in the phrasing of our words if not literally in the words themselves, the false impression that these pages might hold some small fragment, some slight fragrance of a greater truth. That there might be something here to be learned. Before we go any further the author of this cartoon wishes to make an apology. Such an impression was deliberately cultivated. It is a ruse. It is a lie. We are every bit as lost and afraid as children abandoned in a wood: every bit as lost as you.

~ Anders Nilsen

...I think we should find some kind of shelter; a cave or something.I don't want to do that! What if there's like, a creature living in the cave? Tiara said. Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around.What happened? Miss Ohio asked.I don't know. My parents got divorced in the middle of season two and we lost our TiVo.

~ Libba Bray

I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.

~ Susan Vaught

What could be a destination for a lost, when there is no will to move on anymore?

~ Rixa White

When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.

~ Mizuki Nomura

Art is anything you can get lost in. A place to escape and a place to find yourself.

~ Heloise Clough

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

~ Steve Jobs

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

~ Publilius Syrus

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

~ Rose Kennedy

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

~ Amber Tamblyn

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

~ W. C. Fields

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

~ Stendhal

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

~ Rush Limbaugh