Being Lost Quotes

“What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?”
― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“Here it is:
the new way of living with the world

inside of us so we cannot lose it,
and we cannot be lost.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Smoking cheap Spanish filthy sock-tobacco under a pine tree was so much better than trying to hold it together on escalators. There was something comforting about being literally lost when I was lost in every other way...”
― Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

“I'm lost in space and I want to find a way home. Nobody else can get me back to the planet, so I have to do it myself.”
― Susan Vaught, Going Underground

“Being lost isn't the same as being nowhere. Being lost is worse because there's the false hope that you might be found.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

“But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“We become lost,
Unsteady.
Take a deep breath,
Pray.
You will not always be lost.
You are right here,
In your time,
In your place.”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

“imagine being someplace you know
so well but are lost and don’t have any idea
how to get out”
― Kenyatta Rogers

“Sometimes being lost is the best way to find yourself.”
― LJ Vanier, Ether: Into the Nemesis

“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When I don't know what I'm doing, I look like I don't know what I'm doing. When I'm excited or nervous, I look excited or nervous. And when I am lost, which is frequently, I look lost.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“When you think you're lost, not knowing what to do, which direction to go, suddenly the right path appears in front of you! The next part of the road always continues with this question: Who or what helped you? Your own sincere belief that you must find the right path is the one who helped you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Or maybe. Maybe. Maybe I'm just a lost, confused kid, scared of what's happening to me, to my family, to the world, and I hate school and I have no friends, and I spend my days sleeping with my iPod cranked up as loud as it'll go, trying not to go completely crazy, and with all that time alone I'm looking shit up on the Internet, looking up the same stuff over and over, and I memorize it all because I'm wicked smart, because I have to fill my head with something other than the ghosts.”
― Paul Tremblay, A Head Full of Ghosts

“The thing to do, once you know you are lost, is to find a good, safe place to build a little fire, build it, fire three shots, light a cigarette, and sit down and wait.”
― Louise Dickinson Rich, We Took to the Woods

“Sometimes we get lost due to the habit of asking directions from people around us, rather than asking someone who invited you to walk the path.
In doing so, we not only lose the right path, but also the trust that one day we too can become the guide to others”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“He had a sensitive drained face
the face of a small boy lost on the Fairgrounds
after everyone has gone home.”
― Robert Nichols

“There is fear in being lost, but if the place being lost is beautiful, then there is fear in being found!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hope is never lost more than we are”
― Slaven Vujic

“Let us look around us! What do we see? We see this: Everyone is lost somewhere!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You are not regarded as lost until you realize you're lost !”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You cannot find yourself till you lose yourself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sleepless for Society

“When you lose your path, a surge of excitement comes to both your mind and body; your calm shores begin to be beaten by the waves! This vitality created by being lost is a good incentive to get lost!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When you are lost in the dark, remember the darkness of the night, and how it helps to make the stars shine.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I used to think I was afraid of being lost, but then I realized I was afraid of who might find me.”
― Nenia Campbell, Raise the Blood

“Her hands were shaking and her chest felt hollow, as if there was a hole and the hope was draining out of her as well, disappearing into the same place that had stolen all of his hope. But she knew where that place led and she refused to go there.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“How funny you humans are. Grasping in the dark until you feel the hands of another to guide you back.”
― T.J. Klune, Crisped + Sere

“I don’t need help in my journey,” he argued, and she threw him a look that would have made braver men cower in fear.
“No, you need a full navigational system, a ship captain, and someone to hold your hand.” She looked away with a dismissive flap of her hand.”
― A.M. Rose, Found in Obscurity

“Darkness and fear are cellmates.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman