You Are All A Lost Generation Quotes

#1. You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

James Thurber

#2. You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. You are all a lost generation.

Gertrude Stein

#4. What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Robbie Robertson

#6. That is what you are. That's what you all are ... all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

Gertrude Stein

#7. In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely trust anyone.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Some guy on the radio called us the "lost generation" the other day. I wanted to find a payphone and a few quarters and tell that fool that we aren't lost at all.

We're exactly where they put us.

Alexandra Bracken

#9. The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

Ezra Pound

#10. Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Umberto Eco

#11. Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

Douglas Brinkley

#12. I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

Carine Roitfeld

#13. What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Jonathan Kozol

#14. Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.

Bill Bryson

#15. Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God's will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse into paganism.

Carl F. H. Henry

#16. People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

Corey Stoll

#17. I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.

Fernando Pessoa