Quotes About Lostness

#1. Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

Anne Bishop

#2. There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Audrey Niffenegger

#3. The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an "I", but it is not his true "I".' His main business is to find his way back to himself.

Colin Wilson

#4. The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Saint Augustine

#5. When the younger son was no longer considered a human being by the people around him, he felt the profundity of his isolation, the deepest loneliness one can experience. He was truly lost, and it was this complete lostness that brought him to his senses.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#6. DUMB AUTUMN SMELLS. The
marguerite, unbroken, passed
between home and chasm through
your memory.
A strange lostness was
palpably present, almost
you would have lived.

Paul Celan

#7. I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

Ving Rhames

#8. Our age in its honest moments admits its lostness.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#9. The stories we love best do live in us forever.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Spirituality is natural, personal, and rooted in direct experience. There is no such thing as secondhand spirituality. No one else's spirituality can serve as substitute for your own.

David Cowan

#11. I just want to be normal." - Fenn

Candace Knoebel

#12. I don't know, maybe it's easier to be lost than found. At least there's energy in lostness. Something to be done.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#13. There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

John Steinbeck

#14. We're all just wandering around with our fingers crossed, hoping we'll meet someone who will make our lostness a little less lonely.

Alanna Rusnak

#15. It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default - like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

Laini Taylor

#16. It's sort of weird to be hugged by your Algebra teacher. That's all I have to say.

Meg Cabot

#17. Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

Ray Bradbury

#18. We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

Winston Churchill

#19. It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now - girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

Jack Kerouac

#20. I buy extra virgin olive oil by the case (much less expensive this way) and reach for it several times a day. I use it to marinate and cook my protein, saute my vegetables, and drizzle on my salads.

Suzanne Somers

#21. Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

Erol Ozan

#22. Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

Philip Yancey

#23. I've always had a tomboy look.

Carey Lowell