Lost Quotes

• She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

  

  E. M. Delafield
  • World
  • She
  • Book

• 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
  • Found
  • Keys
  • Locks

• I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Model

• Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • People
  • Live
  • Art

• When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Power
  • History
  • True

• I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Family
  • Football
  • Childhood

• Political philosophy has lost its credibility in proportion as politics itself has become more philosophic than ever in a sense.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Political
  • Lost

• Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Good
  • Lost

• The spirit of the South Atlantic was the spirit of Britain at her best. It has been said that we surprised the world, that British patriotism was rediscovered in those spring days. Mr. President, it was never really lost.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • Lost
  • Spring

• Marie Cornelie Falcon, who lost her voice while performing - singing the line 'Je suis pret' - 'I am ready.' How much more tragic can you get?

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Lost
  • Singing

• The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Lost
  • Son

• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  

  Brian Greene
  • Black
  • Lost

• I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was a different person, an infuriating, disappointing yet indispensable person whose body was my only home.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • Different
  • Home
  • Lost

• We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.

  

  John Tavener
  • Heart
  • Lost

• In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a similar job, I decided to forget about money and have a go at something I truly enjoyed. I'd purchased a semi-professional camera earlier that year and spent my free time taking photos in downtown Chicago.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Time
  • Money
  • Job

• I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Lost
  • Forever

• I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Lost
  • Hero

• His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Lost

• One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • World
  • Lost
  • Fire

• We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean-once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Small
  • Forever

• I'm at the point where you look back on your life and reflect. I've always been an unbelievable critic of me. If we lost a game, I blamed myself every night. I'm very proud of some of the things I did as an athlete, as an executive.

  

  Jerry West
  • Life
  • Game
  • Night

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