Feeling Lost Quotes

• Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

  Harry S. Truman

  Truth, Feelings, Intense

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

  Joyce Rupp

  Confused, Heart, Light

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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• I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Losing Someone, Baptists

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• All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Letting Go, Being Alone, Feelings

  Blaise Pascal (1950). “Pensées”

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• I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

  Betty Smith

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Understanding

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

  Louis C. K.

  Editors, Feelings, Comedian

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• You are never too lost that God cannot reach you.

  Annie Lobert

  Lost

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• Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Confused, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 12, 2011

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• Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strength, Being Strong, Fantasy Novels

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

  Masaru Emoto

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

  Masaru Emoto (2005). “The Secret Life of Water”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  William James

  Change, Believe, Reality

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• Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

  Gary Zukav

  Relationship, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 03, 2015

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• With God, nothing is lost; but without him, everything is lost.

  Pope Francis

  Lost

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• Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

  Dave Ramsey

  Dream, Goal, Feelings

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• Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Crazy, Optimism

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2013

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• If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Believe, Reality

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• When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.

  Josh Kaufman

  Heart, Decision, Feelings

  Josh Kaufman (2010). “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”, p.233, Penguin

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• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Feelings, Unhappy

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

  Edgar Cayce

  Feelings, Deeds, Guides

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Long

  "Fictional character: Johnny". "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, Volume 7, 1995 - 1997.

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• The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

  Don DeLillo

  Life, Memories, Thinking

  Don DeLillo (2010). “Point Omega”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

  George Eliot

  Feelings, Littles, Too Much

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.52, Penguin

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• I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Being Alone, Giving, Feelings

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life has meaning. Perhaps I should feel insignificant, but instead I feel a soaring in my heart that the God who could create all this — and out of nothing — can still count the hairs of my head.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Hair, Feelings

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.14, Open Road Media

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