Lost Quotes - Page 36

• The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

  Andre Breton

  Men, Reflection, Identity

  Andre Breton, Mark Polizzotti (1997). “Anthology of Black Humor”, p.329, City Lights Books

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• Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Heart, Loss, Self

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• I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Thinking, Knowing

  "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, October 17, 1995.

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• He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

  George Orwell

  Past, Sea, Monsters

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Adventure

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.182, A&C Black

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• Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

  John Connolly

  Mother, Boys, Once Upon A Time

  John Connolly (2008). “The Book of Lost Things Illustrated Edition”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• if only we lost our minds and arrived at our hearts

  Robert James Waller

  Heart, Mind, Ifs

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• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

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• Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.

  Gary Snyder

  Wall, Fire, Space

  Gary Snyder (1992). “No nature: new and selected poems”, Pantheon

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• For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

  John Steinbeck

  Worry, Gentleman, Gone

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• Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Believe, Connections

  "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason". Book by Sam Harris, 2004.

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• The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sunshine, Fire, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.699, Modern Library

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• The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Heart, Gleam

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Arguing, Basil

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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• She put a wedge beside my heart And then she brought the mallet down She sang no song to guide her work I lost my heart without a sound

  Shannon Hale

  Song, Heart, Sound

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• The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Reality, Law

  Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church. YouTube Channel "nicholasflyer"/"Martin Luther King Jr. 'Rediscovering Lost Values' February 28, 1954", www.youtube.com. September 24, 2015.

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• We looked like a parade barely moving toward YOU MIGHT GET LOST.

  Richard Brautigan

  Moving, Might, Parades

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

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• How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

  Kevin Brockmeier

  Opportunity, Water, Personality

  Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.123, Vintage

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• To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Wisdom, Patience, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4236, Delphi Classics

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• I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

  John Knowles

  Desire, Purpose, Firsts

  "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, (p. 14), 1959.

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• I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard coffins beneath the oak tree in our backyard. Also where, if some future archaeologist goes digging, they'll find the remains of a plush toy: a gray terrier named Toto I buried after the accident.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Lying, Skeletons

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• Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Giving, Wish, Trying

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• Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.

  Anita Shreve

  Loss, Men, Thinking

  Anita Shreve (2008). “Body Surfing: A Novel”, Back Bay Books

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