1,547 Quotes About Lost

You're going to feel as though you don't know what to do. But we've discussed this: you don't know anything. Even when you think you do, you really don't know what the fuck you're doing. So really, what is there to lose? Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway. All of life lis like this. It never changes. Even when you're happy.

How long must we wander through the wilderness of our arrogance before we acknowledge the existence of the wilderness and confess the fact that we’re lost in it? And if such a posture of humility is beyond us, the woods will grow and a way out of them will not.

To incessantly define ‘where we’re at’ as a means of convincing ourselves that we know ‘where we’re at’ suggests that we’re lost about being lost. And while the wilderness of life is teeming with these kinds of people, I have to make certain that I never enter the woods.

My life, I realized, had gone wrong. Very, very wrong. I wasn't supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn't know how to make it right. Mummy's way of thinking was wrong. I knew that. But no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, & although I'd tried my best over the years, I simply didn't know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.

The value of what’s part of us can’t be measured until it’s already lost.

She already had resolute determination, but also a naïve wish to overturn it.Lost, wavering, and lost again.Her heart swayed like a weathercock fluttered around in the wind, but always returned to its original place.

When you feel you have lost, you are actually receiving an irreplaceable lesson. If you acknowledge the lesson and learn from it , it is no longer a loss.

I was lost, hopelessly, irretrievably lost. Amelia Earhart lost. All-that’s-missing-is-the-smoke-monster lost. The kind of lost you only got when you were running seriously late and were this close to being fired. Again.

It’s hard to know when you’ve been holding on to something until you finally let it go, or it leaves of its own accord.