Top 100 Quotes About Getting Lost
#1. Peter was lost. More than lost, really. Spectacularly, hopelessly, "tell the search party not to get their hopes up" lost. If there was a contest for getting lost being held at that moment, Peter wouldn't win because he wouldn't be able to find it. That's how lost he was.
Mark Hill
#2. Life is a walk in the fog. Most people don't know that. They're fooled by the sunlight into thinking they can see what's ahead. But it's the reason they are forever getting lost or falling into ditches or committing matrimony.
Jack McDevitt
#3. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
John Taliaferro
#4. You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here
Kim Wilde
#5. Getting lost in a place like this you can almost guarantee that you aren't going to make it out here.
Joe Teti
#7. The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.
Stacey Dash
#8. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.
Joseph Goldstein
#9. I had trouble even looking at her face without getting lost in the beauty, lost in the feelings, the love I had for her.
Karina Halle
#11. I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
Leonard Cohen
#12. I once heard about a botanist in Hawaii with a knack for finding new species by getting lost in the jungle, by going beyond what he knew and how he knew, by letting experience be larger than his knowledge, by choosing reality rather than the plan.
Rebecca Solnit
#13. When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
Karin Slaughter
#15. Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.
Robert Breault
#16. I suppose sometimes it takes getting lost to enjoy the joy of being found
Tricia Goyer
#17. Next time you take directions from your heart, plan on getting lost.
Katie Kacvinsky
#18. Preaching the whole council of God involves man's environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.
Billy Graham
#19. The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.
Hal Roach
#20. I don't know how you look at the inside of your head - what metaphor you choose - but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.
James St. James
#21. Resa longed for the kitchen, always full of the humming of the oversize fridge, for mo's workshop in the garden, and the armchair in the library where you could sit and visit strange worlds without getting lost in them
Cornelia Funke
#22. Life is about cherishing memories, getting lost in moments of beauty, and enjoying profound joy and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#23. When it's time to make music, that's about getting lost for me. To be a control freak is not half as good as being a freak who's casually in control. You're feeling around in the dark for something that feels good.
Josh Homme
#24. Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don't be afraid of getting lost!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.
Robert Baden-Powell
#26. Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
Roberto Bolano
#27. Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.
Simon Van Booy
#28. I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.
Melanie Iglesias
#29. Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.
Jan Brett
#30. The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
William Stafford
#31. I read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.
Joanne Clancy
#32. Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze.
We're singing in the car, getting lost Upstate.
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place,
And I can picture it after all these days.
Taylor Swift
#33. We have an undeniable connection that's more intense than 10,000 Kelvin heat, more dynamic than seismic activity. It's like there's gravity between us - she's the only thing anchoring me to the world, keeping me from floating off into the upper stratosphere and getting lost in space.
Kristen Zimmer
#34. A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105
Melody Beattie
#35. We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the 'sine qua non' of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
C. G. Jung
#36. Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.
Michele Zackheim
#37. Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about the beauty of your heart. It's about being able to rise above even the worst of situations. It's one of the reason I've loved you every single day since I was 11 years old.
Mia Sheridan
#38. Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.
Julien Smith
#40. I was in the library reading - getting lost in another world that's not my reality.
Jay McLean
#41. Albert Einstein didn't care where he lived. Albert Einstein was a genius. Albert Einstein wasn't getting lost in the master bedroom, he was lost in thought.
Fran Lebowitz
#42. Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.
Thomas Jones
#43. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.
Edmund Gwenn
#44. We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.
Jack Johnson
#45. Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.
Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost.
Melissa Lemon
#46. I'm sorry, you see, I have no sense of direction. I've always had nightmares about getting lost. I believe I belong on another planet.
Charles Bukowski
#47. Getting lost in the 'big picture' often prevents us from cherishing the 'small moments' that make it all worthwhile...
J.R. Wirth
#48. It was like falling into a dream, and she felt herself getting lost inside the lines, the simplicity of the page a safety net against the memory of the day it was made.
Jennifer E. Smith
#49. I rode my bike home and did the one thing that always helped when things weren't going well. I read. Books were my refuge. Getting lost in a solid adventure story was the best way I knew of to turn off reality.
D.J. MacHale
#50. Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home.
Gina Greenlee
#51. Truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they're prepared to confront. It's not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when then different perceptions battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. And the monsters find a way of getting out.
Emily Thorne
#52. In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn't worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
Barbara Sher
#53. Whatever. I've never understood what the big deal is about reading." He shuts the door and locks it, turning for the stairs. "Going to another place. Getting lost in time. Pretending that you're living a different life." He heads down the stairs and I follow him. "What's not to love?
Jessica Sorensen
#54. HONY is one of the only things keeping people from getting lost in the matrix.
Brandon Stanton
#55. It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.
Kid Cudi
#56. Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
Anna Freud
#57. Early sign of getting lost is fear.
Toba Beta
#58. Getting lost in a good book affords the surest means of improving one's mind as well as fueling one's imagination with a sense of adventure. All the better if said book should happen to be of a romantic bent.
P.O. Dixon
#59. Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.
Rebecca Solnit
#60. When you're a kid, getting lost isn't just an event or a situation, it's like a career move. You get this thrill of anxiety and fear and a feeling that you've done something that can never be undone.
Ryu Murakami
#64. Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.
Robin S. Sharma
#65. Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
Gerald Morris
#66. In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Life it seems will fade away/
Drifting further every day/
Getting lost within myself/
Nothing matters, no one else/
Metallica
#68. Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.
Corey Ann Haydu
#69. Children, Landon said, are good at getting lost, because "the key in survival is knowing you're lost": they don't stray far, they curl up in some sheltered place at night, they know they need help.
Rebecca Solnit
#70. Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.
Sam Weller
#72. Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.
Erol Ozan
#73. God's wisdom, true wisdom, is essential to living the life we were designed to live. Apart from God and his wisdom, we can spend a lot of time and energy getting lost, or worse, asking for directions from people who only pretend to know the way.
Margaret Feinberg
#75. And it now occurred to me that maybe the whole point was, in fact, to lose yourself. But not in the sense of confusion
in the sense of connection to something bigger than yourself ... Getting lost to be found.
Tanuja Desai Hidier
#76. I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.
Emily Ratajkowski
#77. Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
Rebecca Solnit
#78. I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library - subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps - and try to memorize them. I'm afraid of getting lost; no, I'm afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.
Deborah Feldman
#79. Normal is overrated and experience. Being just like everyone else, getting lost in the crowd is nothing to strive for.
S.L. Naeole
#80. Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#81. The body breathes by itself. The mind thinks by itself. Awareness simply observes the process without getting lost in the content.
Noah Levine
#82. I don't know why it's called "getting lost." Even when you turn down the wrong street, when you find yourself at the dead end of a chain-link fence or a road that turnd to sand, you are somewhere. It just isn't where you expected to be.
Jodi Picoult
#83. If I ever felt like I was getting lost in the hurricane that was storming around Nirvana, I'd just go back to Virginia.
Dave Grohl
#84. It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V.S. Naipaul
#85. A focused Board concentrates on strategy oversight and governance practices, to avoid getting lost in the forest.
Pearl Zhu
#86. My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.
Judy Gold
#87. I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting.
Paul Simonon
#88. The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#89. Getting lost in human perception is a very scary idea.
Ezra Miller
#90. I think writing is better in odd or terrible places. It makes the magic all the more wonderful, because you're getting lost in a beautiful world.
Megan Linski
#91. Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.
J.K. Rowling
#92. On getting lost in a book.
Set adrift
A life unknown
Connections form
Love is sewn
Patty Wiseman
#93. As the past disappears, I keep getting lost.
Jan Wong
#95. And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.
Ahmed Mostafa
#96. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again ... even though every time you've tried before you've lost.
Taylor Swift
#97. Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time ...
Janet Morris
#98. Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.
pg vi
Michael Ben Zehabe
#99. With so few clothes to choose from, getting dressed was no quarrelsome effort. It was almost an argument for not acquiring more blouses and skirts, jumpers and jackets, else how much time would be lost in dividing and conquering them?
Sarah Jane Stratford
#100. I thought he was someone I wanted to know. As it turns out, it was a case of
mistaken identity.
Jodi Livon
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