122 Lost Quotes Found

Step into the world where wisdom meets wanderlust with our curated collection of the top 122 Lost Quotes Found. This unique compilation invites you to explore profound insights, timeless reflections, and evocative musings from various realms of thought and imagination. Whether you're searching for inspiration, solace, or a touch of nostalgia, these carefully selected quotes promise to resonate with the seeker in you. Dive in and let these words guide you on a journey through the intricacies of the human experience.

1. “All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

2. “When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?” - Billy Connolly

3. “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” - George Bernard Shaw

4. “Yeah, but the lost diadem," said Michael Corner, rolling his eyes, "is lost, Luna. That's sort of the point.” - J.K. Rowling

5. “Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it."He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have."Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last."What?""Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.” - Libba Bray

6. “I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.” - Daniel Boone

7. “The snobbish lost in laud.” - Toba Beta

8. “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.” - Erich Maria Remarque

9. “You're reaching outAnd no one hears you cryYou're freaking out again'Cause all your fearsRemind you another dream has come undoneYou feel so small and lost like you're the only oneYou wanna scream 'cause you'reDesperateYou want somebody, just anybodyTo lay their hands on your soul tonightYou want a reason to keep believin'That someday you're gonna see the lightYou're in the darkThere's no one left to callAnd sleep's your only friendWell even sleepCan't hide you from all those tearsAnd all the pain and all the daysYou wasted pushin' them awayIt's your life, it's time you face it ” - David Archuletta

10. “It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.” - James Hilton

11. “Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living.” - Alysha Speer

12. “But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it.Just because it wouldn’t last forever out there didn’t mean it hadn’texisted. that’s why I was there. I was there for a moment. Andbecause of a string of beautiful moments spent at that very sameplace, moments I would keep inside me wherever I went.” - Amanda Howells

13. “I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.” - Alexandra Adornetto

14. “Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.” - Sarah Ockler

15. “To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.” - Peter Høeg

16. “I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.” - Raymond Carver

17. “Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.” - Peter Deunov

18. “Losing one glove is certainly painful,but nothing compared to the pain,of losing one, throwing away the other,and finding the first one again.” - Piet Hein

19. “I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.” - Thomas Wolfe

20. “They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxley and Freud, all smiles. And then we discovered that Darwin and our religions didn't mix. Or at least we didn't think they did. We were fools. We tried to budge Darwin and Huxley and Freud. They wouldn't move very well. So, like idiots, we tried knocking down religion. We succeeded pretty well. We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answer to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are lost people.” - Ray Bradbury

21. “Eliza: The problem with YOU is that you don't take the RESPONSIBILITY for anything@ You think you can just run around, doing whatever you want to whoever you want, and that it's going to be fine. That everything is just going to be TAKE CARE of for you, with no consequences.Cooper: No. I don't, and I have had consequences from what happened with me and you.Eliza: Yeah? Like what?Cooper: I lost you, that was my consequence.” - Lauren Barnholdt

22. “Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams -- that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale. ” - Robert Fanney

23. “Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.” - Justina Chen Headley

24. “Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over” - Eoin Colfer

25. “Some things were better lost than found.” - Stephen King

26. “When I had to work Shea Stadium for a Mets-Braves game – Atlanta pitcher John Rocker had recently given an interview in which he denounced New Yorkers of all Colors and preferences – I was assigned to a parking lot, where numerous drivers asked me for directions to various highways. When my first answer – “I have no idea” – seemed to invite denunciation and debate, I revised it to “Take the first left.” For all I know, those people are still lost in Queens. ” - Edward Conlon

27. “Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.” - Margaret Craven

28. “I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.” - Gayle Forman

29. “Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping” - Nicholas Sparks

30. “He is not my focus," Diana told writer Rodney Tyler of Arne. "He’s my husband, my companion, my lover, my confidant. But not my focus. I wasn’t lost, then found by Arne. I was single and met a wonderful man and we enjoyed each other’s company and enjoyed our times together. So it was not lost and found. That’s crap. I have never been lost.” - J. Randy Taraborrelli

31. “In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.” - C. JoyBell C.

32. “Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.” - Michael LeBoeuf

33. “I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr." There was pain in her voice. "I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place with no windows or doors. I didn't know how to live without you. I didn't know how to smile or feel or be. It took almost two years before I really accepted that it was over and I had to find a way to go on. I made myself strong. I'm alive again. I can wake up some mornings and be happy. I can look at the ocean and find peace again. Now you're asking me to risk everything all over again and I'm not certain I could survive if it all came crashing down.” - Christine Feehan

34. “But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.” - Cassandra Clare

35. “The quiet sense of something lost” - Tennyson

36. “When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way.” - Toba Beta

37. “I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.” - Bret Easton Ellis

38. “My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.” - Nina LaCour

39. “My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her. It’s so wrong so completely and painfully wrong, that I walked through my front door tonight smiling.” - Nina LaCour

40. “When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn’t that bad.” - Nina LaCour

41. “I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.” - Samuel Johnson

42. “I half closed my eyes and imagined this was the spot where everything I'd ever lost since my childhood had washed up, and I was now standing here in front of it, and if I waited long enough, a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy, and he'd wave, and maybe even call.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

43. “Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.” - Jodi Picoult

44. “Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.” - Jodi Picoult

45. “Where did everyone find the will to do all the work in the world? We're all allowed a kind of grace period, she decided, when we can coast along, before we really need to choose a life and summon the determination to live it. Her grace period had just run out.” - Alethea Black

46. “A lost person or article is still what it is, still valuable in itself, but in the wrong place, disconnected from its purpose and unable to be or do whatever it is intended to be or do.” - David Winter

47. “Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.” - Jodi Picoult

48. “Would you think it strange if I said I was having a good time? We're lost and confused and carrying around a cat. By all accounts, I should be feeling completely at a loss. Irritated.” - Shelley Shepard Gray

49. “There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights he was on the sea, and what kept him alive while others drowned was telling himself stories like a madman, so that as one ended another began. On the seventh day he had told all the stories he knew and that was when he began to tell himself as if he were a story, from the earliest beginnings to his green and deep misfortune. The story he told was of a man lost and found, not once, but many times, as he choked his way out of the waves. And the night fell, he saw the Cape Wrath light, only lit a week it was, but it was, and he knew that if he became the story of the light, he might be saved. With his last strength he began to paddle towards it, arms on either side of the spar, and in his mind the light became a shining rope, pulling him in. He took hold of it, tied it round his waist, and at that moment, the keeper saw him, and ran for the rescue boat.” - Jeanette Winterson

50. “Its the actions one produces that will lead them toward the unknown.” - Steven Farmer

51. “Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.” - William Gibson

52. “Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.” - Catherynne M. Valente

53. “You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.” - Suzanne Collins

54. “In my dreams of this city I am always lost.” - Margaret Atwood

55. “We all seek for lost things within us.” - Toba Beta

56. “Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.” - Bret Easton Ellis

57. “Even knowing that my presence brought a shadow over the lives of my loved ones, I can't regret the experiences I've had with them. They gave me life, becoming an integral part of my soul. They healed me when I was broken and somehow they recovered those parts of me, I thought lost forever.” - J.D. Stroube

58. “Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.” - Robert Dodson

59. “Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.” - Julien Smith

60. “Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.” - Suzanne Collins

61. “We lose our soul, to find our life.” - Joanne Crisner

62. “For anyone who feels lost in their own way, going back to who you are and what you love or moving forward to whoever you are meant to be or meant to love, is the purpose of being lost. We lose ourselves, so we can find out who we truly are. And when by fate we do, we discover the best version of ourselves.” - Joanne Crisner

63. “Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?” - Thomas Hardy

64. “It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.” - Katie Kacvinsky

65. “What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.” - Carrie Jones

66. “Though he wouldn't dare admit that he might have felt more for her. He wasn't ready to care for a person that much when he still didn't care too highly for himself. most days Landon regarded himself as a lost soul, a wanderer. Who could love such a man?” - Shawn Kirsten Maravel

67. “I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.” - Melody Beattie

68. “September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut… I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride… I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women… I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community… I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…” - Steve Maraboli

69. “I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.” - Walt Whitman

70. “Getting lost is the only place worth going to.” - Tiziano Scarpa

71. “I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.” - Steven Herrick

72. “When all else is lost, the future still remains.” - Christian Bovee

73. “Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untrod,One more devils’-triumph and sorrow for angels,  One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!” - Robert Browning

74. “Believe in your dreams even when they seem lost” - Hayley Williams

75. “But maybe that's what the dead do. They stay. They linger. Benign and sweet and painful. They don't need us. They echo all by themselves.” - Sangu Mandanna

76. “We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.Piper” - T. Greenwood

77. “Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.” - Jonathan Carroll

78. “..само държавата може да създаде ред, а и път - това е непосилно за варварите. По трахеите, с които опасахме земната твърд, вече се движат не само армията, нито само керваните, пътищата свързват човешките същества, като ни обединяват в общ организъм, в единно цяло. Всеки път има начало и край и никой, тръгнал по него не може да се изгуби.” - Силвия Томова

79. “Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much.” - J. D. Salinger

80. “Before your reach your destination, you'll find yourself going through the wilderness. There's some survival skills that you'll need master through the wilderness journey. While in the wilderness, your faith will be tried and tested. You'll become humble. Your vision for your life will get clearer. You're in training for your purpose. You'll lose some friends, because there's some folks who are only with you because of where they think your journey will lead THEM. Don't worry, they're a little confused... but it was meant for them to get lost during this phase. Walk on. Continue on your journey. Soon, you'll be approaching the mountain. Get ready to climb!” - Yvonne Pierre

81. “You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.” - Idries Shah

82. “Dad says that everyone invented baklava.” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes.“Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.” - Diana Abu-Jaber

83. “I remember I’ve never shared tears with someone that longedfor (me) and loved me; I didn’t know how to be compassionate.”(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)” - Chimnese Davids

84. “She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...” - Angela Carter

85. “You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.” - Rachel Ward

86. “How come they get to be gray-haired and still in love with each other, while Lilly tears out what's left of my heart and dumps it into her Jill-The-Ripper shredder?” - Daven Anderson

87. “Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.” - Kimberly Novosel

88. “Lo bueno de perderse es que aprendes nuevos caminos.” - Dulce María

89. “Some things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.” - Julia Green

90. “This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.” - Paulo Coelho

91. “How did we keep getting so lost in a midnight world? Why did we continue lamenting as we wounded our hearts and were cut apart?” - Mizuki Nomura

92. “When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.” - Mizuki Nomura

93. “When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.” - Mizuki Nomura

94. “I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.” - J.A. Redmerski

95. “It kind of scares me though, to keep wearing it every day like I do. What happens when I run out of it? Will I forget what she looked like? What it looked like when the sun reflected on her hair? The way her pillow always smelled like her? Will my memory of her run out too?” - Keary Taylor

96. “North-ish." A pause, and then: "Is that Terra for I'm lost-ish?” - Justina Chen Headley

97. “The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” - John Milton

98. “When all is lost, there is still a memory.” - Dejan Stojanovic

99. “Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.” - Lili St. Crow

100. “It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In order to become lost, one must not be able to realize their own identity, ego, and self.” - Lionel Suggs

101. “I did not know I was on a search for passionate aliveness. I only knew I was lonely and lost and that something was drawing me deeper beneath the surface of my life in search of meaning. There is a hunger in people to go to those deep depths; to know that our lives are sacred; that our hearts are truly capable of love. It is a yearning to be all the we can be. A longing for what is real.” - Anne Hillman

102. “Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most. If you are out of the fold and away from God, put your name in the words of John 3:16 and say, “Lord, it is I. I’m the cause and reason why Thou didst on earth come to die.” That kind of positive, personal faith and a personal Redeemer is what saves you. If you will just rush in there, you do not have to know all the theology and all the right words. You can say, “I am the one He came to die for.” Write it down in your heart and say, “Jesus, this is me—Thee and me,” as though there were no others. Have that kind of personalized belief in a personal Lord and Savior.” - A.W. Tozer

103. “Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.” - J.K. Rowling

104. “What could be a destination for a lost, when there is no will to move on anymore?” - Rixa White

105. “See you in another life, brotha.” - Desmond Hume

106. “Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero” - Rick Riordan

107. “So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming.” - Albert Camus The Fall

108. “As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

109. “I couldn't believe I let him see me like this, unable to fend for myself. I fumed in disgust at my vulnerability. I didn't want Evan to think I needed protecting. I pulled back my torment and let the numb blanket envelop me, pushing away the stirred memories, the noise of the crowd, and the trembling that still lay beneath the surface. I stared at the flames licking at the darkness and everything was lost as I sank deeper into nothingness.” - Rebecca Donovan

110. “When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.” - Jack Kornfield

111. “There is no feeling that is comparable to that of being truly lost. I don’t mean lost in the woods, or desert, but lost in the way that only can happen internally. Lost to the deepest,blackest pit of your soul, clinging to ghosts of past times, when you thought you knew who andwhat you were. When this happens, you have two choices; you can give in to your darkest inclinations,and accept what you are, or you can fight, knowing that it is a losing battle, that the good halfof your soul is strong, but can never erase the bad part.” - H.D. Gordon

112. “Too much has been given and too much has been lost.” - Harley King

113. “Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.” - Lauren Oliver

114. “I am lost in my world,invisible - unknown.Moon please lend meyour light that someonewill me see me.” - Susie Clevenger

115. “I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.” - Ashly Lorenzana

116. “Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante.” - Jacques Tardi

117. “But I never just quite liked that ryhme.''Why not, child?''Because it seems to say one's as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that's lost. . . . Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.” - George MacDonald

118. “Times moves differently down here in the dark. With no sunlight or shadows. No weather at all. There's no future, no right now. Nothing but your memory to keep you company. But they keep me so angry and weak. I can barely think straight. How long have I been locked up...wuuks? months? I don't even konow how I got to this place. There are times I don't even know who I am anymore.” - Scott Snyder

119. “It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.” - Susan E. Isaacs

120. “Edith’s clothes were flung in disarray on the floor beside the bed, the covers of which had been thrown back carelessly; she lay naked and glistening under the light on the white unwrinkled sheet. Her body was lax and wanton in its naked sprawl, and it shone like pale gold. William came nearer the bed. She was fast asleep, but in a trick of the light her slightly opened mouth seemed to shape the soundless words of passion and love. He stood looking at her for a long time. He felt a distant pity and reluctant friendship and familiar respect; and he felt also a weary sadness, for he knew that he would never again be moved as he had once been moved by her presence. The sadness lessened, and he covered her gently, turned out the light, and got in bed beside her.” - John Williams

121. “I dreamed of dying, long before my dreams have died.” - Anthony Liccione

122. “When you’re lost there’s nowhere to go but forward. One step at a time – and the way will show itself.” - Sam J. Charlton