Lost Quotes - Page 38

• When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Missing, Soul, Alive

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• But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

  William P. Young

  Night, Enough, Starry Night

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• What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

  Jodi Picoult

  What If, Vanishing, Next

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer. Because tonight Oliver wasn't that man. Not to her. He was the boy who'd cried over his dead mother, the young man who'd lost himself in drink and women to forget the past, the marquess who'd vowed not to marry for money. He was the man to be her lover.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Mother, Boys, Past

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast

  Walt Disney

  Years, Broken, Despair

  "Beauty and the Beast", 1991.

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• When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)

  Raymond Chandler

  Doors, Hands, Pie

  Raymond Chandler (1995). “Stories and Early Novels”

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• When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

  Flann O'Brien

  Sleep, Men, Blood

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• Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch!

  John Steinbeck

  Taste, Used, Strawberries

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.113, Penguin

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• Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life And Death, Matter, Made

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Masque of the Red Death”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Morning, Eye, Journey

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• ...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

  Brent Weeks

  Reality, Wish, Complaining

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Secret, Gold

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.581, Delphi Classics

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• But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost her nerve. Taking his hand, she pulled him toward her, near enough to feel his body against her. She looked up at him, tilting her head slightly as she leaned in. Mike, recognizing what was happening but still having trouble believing it, tilted his head and closed his eyes, their faces drawing near.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Forever, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 08, 2014

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• Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.

  Terry Brooks

  Giving, Vision, Firsts

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.222, Del Rey

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• Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star" And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stars, Darkness, Bars

  Song: A Case of You

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• We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dream, Order, One Day

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.50, New World Library

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely nothing about how to conduct his own relationships, Tiny Cooper is kind of brilliant when it comes to dealing with other people's heartbreak. Tiny is like some gigantic sponge soaking up the pain of lost love everywhere he goes.

  John Green

  Pain, Lost Love, People

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.81, Penguin

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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  Mark Twain

  Knowledge, Science, Rainbow

  A Tramp Abroad ch. 42 (1880)

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• Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart, in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Heart, Funny Things

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Government, Dresses

  Common Sense (1776)

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• As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Money, Mean

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• All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forever, Unattainable, Consciousness

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.

  David Lubar

  Baseball, Kids, Rivers

  David Lubar (2007). “Hidden Talents”, p.60, Macmillan

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