Famous quotes containing the word lost:
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finishedit has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Not so many years ago there there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travelmovement through spaceprovided the universal metaphor for change.... One of the subtle confusionsperhaps one of the secret terrorsof modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)
“Seeing myself well lost once more, I sighed,
Where, where in Heaven am I? But dont tell me!
O opening clouds, by opening on me wide.
Lets let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)