Top 100 The Lost Quotes
#1. Man has the lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end up destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer
#2. Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, where the lost Nazi art collection disappeared.
Stephen Kinzer
#3. Yeah, but the lost diadem," said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, "is lost, Luna. That's sort of the point.
J.K. Rowling
#4. You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You're one of us now - the Tribe of the Teddy Bear. From Tribe of the Teddy Bear
J. Joseph Wright
#5. Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these are major states of mind in contemporary imaginative literature.
Robert A. Nisbet
#6. It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Leo Buscaglia
#7. The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.
Marianne Williamson
#8. But some gifts are worse than curses, and the dark side of the gift is that they know. The lost, the stragglers, those who should not have been taken but were, the innocents, the struggling, tormented shades, the gathering ranks of the dead, they know. And they come.
John Connolly
#9. And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.
T. S. Eliot
#10. The lost and found the Cause hath crowned, The Day of Days is here.
William Morris
#11. They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. "My God I'll never take another drink," said the first. "My God I'll never go to another movie." How's that for commitment?
John Berryman
#12. Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
Mary Oliver
#13. To the lost man, to the pioneer penetrating a new country, to the naturalist who wishes to see the wild land at its wildest, the advice is always the same - follow a river. The river is the original forest highway. It is nature's own Wilderness Road.
Edwin Way Teale
#14. It's also important to develop a burden for the lost.
David Jeremiah
#15. Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
Madeleine L'Engle
#16. When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listeners of the '60s and '70s, particularly in Canada, missed out on an outpouring of brilliant R&B music.
Dan Hill
#17. Those were the black ears; the lost years. He had allowed himself to become the victim of events, rather than their master. [Jakab]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#18. Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
Joyce Carol Oates
#19. We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.
David McGee
#20. First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it.
Michael Scott
#21. I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
Dan Brown
#22. In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.
Matthew Arnold
#23. The lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story
David Whyte
#24. Love unlived is a sin against life, and mourning is one of the ways we love. I felt it then, and I let it happen, the longing for him to return. The power in his eyes, and the pride when I did something he admired, and the love in his laugh. The longing: the longing for the lost.
Gregory David Roberts
#25. It was then that I could feel that the moths in him, with their wings so paper-thin, will never be near enough to the light. They will always want to be nearer - to be inside of it. It was then that I could feel the lost thing in him.
Ava Dellaira
#26. Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk in a charnel house; and the lost lie forgotten below us as, overhead, we persaude ourselves that we are immortal and carry on the business of life.
Catharine Arnold
#27. I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.
Ruth Rendell
#28. She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other.
Sue Monk Kidd
#30. In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.
Lucy Foley
#31. When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.
Maureen Murdock
#32. He nurse the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him.
Saki
#33. A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
Neil Genzlinger
#34. I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.
Blake Bailey
#35. John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
Jack Kerouac
#36. As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost.
Henry Benjamin Whipple
#37. Many of the lost will be found, eventually, dead or alive. Disappearances, after all, have explanations.
Diana Gabaldon
#38. Falling not flying
one lost muddy shoe
like the lost worlds
between me and you
Kami Garcia
#39. Love has many eyes to seek the lost,
many ears to hear the weeping,
many hands to uphold the poor,
and many feet to visit the sick.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. There's a realm above the trees
Where the lost are finally found
Touch your feathers to the breeze
And leave the ground.
Owl City
#41. It is to the dead that the life comes; it is to the unloveable that the love comes; it is to the lost that the salvation comes.
Horatius Bonar
#42. Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again.
Munia Khan
#43. Okay - there's no easy way to explain this, so I'm just going to say it. We're not human, Sophie.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#44. Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.
Anne Sexton
#45. Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost is almost entirely neglected.
Oswald J. Smith
#46. How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man. -The Lost Steps
Alejo Carpentier
#47. Ricky tasted something he hadn't experienced since childhood: the panic of losing the hand of a guardian. In this case the lost parent was his sanity. Somewhere
Clive Barker
#48. Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life ... "Not I, but Christ."
Vance Havner
#49. One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most.
Meghan O'Rourke
#50. The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.
Billy Graham
#51. The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.
Robert Graham
#52. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham
#53. Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
Delmore Schwartz
#54. As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
James E. Faust
#55. The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.
Mencius
#56. There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.
Muriel Rukeyser
#57. In the symphony of love, the lost chord is a small organ lying somewhat north of the vagina.
Ruth Herschberger
#58. Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
Mark Twain
#59. O craving heart, for the lost flowers/ And sunshine of my summer hours!/ The undying voice of that dead time,/ With its interminable chime,/ Rings in the spirit of a spell, / Upon thy emptiness
a knell. / I have not always been as now:
Edgar Allan Poe
#60. Christ did not die to give people a career but to save the lost.
Reinhard Bonnke
#61. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)
Lisa Bevere
#62. There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
Colin Trevorrow
#63. The score I always have on heavy repeat is 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark!'
Neil Marshall
#64. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#65. And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like ...
I don't know, it would feel like home.
Morgan Parker
#66. The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost ... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.
Thomas Aquinas
#67. Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.
Denis Johnson
#69. Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?
Mark Z. Danielewski
#70. Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.
K.P. Yohannan
#71. To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins,
All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception)
Is agony immobilized. While Time,
The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.
Carson McCullers
#74. All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland.
Michael Jackson
#75. he realizes that this is the way it is, the way it must be: you don't visit the lost, you visit the people who search for the lost.
Hanya Yanagihara
#76. Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way into eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Dante Alighieri
#77. The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.
T.K. Naliaka
#78. If it was the Border Patrol's job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.
Luis Alberto Urrea
#79. For is my story really so unusual? To wake each morning as if things had gone differently
the dead come back, the lost returned, the beloved in our arms
is it really any more magic than the ordinary madness of hope?
Andrew Sean Greer
#81. I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.
Richard Brautigan
#82. Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#83. What can I say about 'The Lost Boys'? Oh my God: I love it; I hate it; I'm scared of it. I had a massive crush on them all when I was young. And I wanted to be a vampire. It's so stylized; it's the type of film I grew up on. To me, it's always at the top.
Jaime Winstone
#84. The purified heart is obnoxious to the devil and to all the forces of the lost world. They will not rest until they have won back what they have lost.
A.W. Tozer
#85. He believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy.
Sinclair Lewis
#86. For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun.
In "The Lost Phoebe".
Dreiser Theodore
#87. When you have a grasp on eternity your eyes won't ever see the battle or the lost people that hurt you. You will see a beautiful story of hope, in every character. It is not one person god loves. He loves us all and this is his story, our story and theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
Alexander Cockburn
#89. After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.
Nile Rodgers
#90. We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by the Father to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10), and He passed the baton to His disciples.
R.C. Sproul
#91. Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic.
M.F. Moonzajer
#92. The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.
Jennifer James
#93. Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others - forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let
Andrew Murray
#94. Some people talk about "finding God," but that seemed like a severely inaccurate description of what I was experiencing. It felt more like God was finding me. He wasn't the lost one - I was. I
Jennifer Dukes Lee
#95. Rufus ignored him, muttering in the lost tongue of a pre-human civilisation that had worked great sorcerous happenings yet had never invented the vowel.
Jonathan L. Howard
#96. Only now do I understand the war against boredom, the lost cause of empty hours, of empty days and nights.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#98. Her warm breath, her cheeks wet with tears. All the lost possibilities, all the time that was never to return.
Haruki Murakami
#99. I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#100. Land of the Lost, Thundarr the Barbarian, He-Man, Schoolhouse Rock!, G.I. Joe - I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.
Ernest Cline
