Feeling Lost Quotes:

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

- Franz Kafka

topic: Depression, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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

- George Eliot

topic: Feelings, Feeling Lost, Littles

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Harry S. Truman

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

topic: Truth, Feelings, Feeling Lost, Intense Feelings

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling lost and insignificant inside the larger culture. So you end up feeling lost squared. And to never be recognized, to never have any power, you know, other minority communities actually have a lot of economic, cultural power.

- Sherman Alexie

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Community, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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

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

topic: Confused, Heart, Light, Feeling Lost, Being Confused

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

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Feeling Lost

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Letting Go, Being Alone, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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

topic: Understanding, Needs, Feels, Feeling Lonely, Feeling Empty

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

- Douglas Coupland

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

topic: Life, Lonely, Loneliness, Feeling Alone, Irony Of Life

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.

topic: Feelings, Use, Path, Feeling Lost, Unsure

You are never too lost that God cannot reach you.

- Annie Lobert

topic: Lost, Words Of Encouragement, Feeling Lost, God Is Able

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

topic: Love, Confused, Feelings, Lost And Confused, Zahir

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

source: 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

topic: Faith, Strong, Kings, Inspiring Movie, Travel Light

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

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

topic: Beautiful, Being Strong, Flower, Feeling Down, I Am Strong

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

topic: Change, Believe, Past, Different Realities, Worry And Fear

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

topic: Pain, Love You, Self Worth, Spiritual Partnership, Valueless

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

- Pope Francis

topic: Lost, Feeling Lost

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

- Dave Ramsey

topic: Dream, Goal, Feelings, Feeling Lost, Small Goals

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

- Alain de Botton

source: Twitter post from Jan 13, 2013

topic: Good Life, Crazy, Optimism, Feeling Lost

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

topic: Letting Go, Believe, Reality, Different Realities, Past Events

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

- Josh Kaufman

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

topic: Heart, Decision, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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

- Edgar Cayce

topic: Feelings, Deeds, Guides, Feeling Lost

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

topic: Being Alone, Long, Feelings, Feeling Lost, Homicidal

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

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

topic: Life, Memories, Thinking, Feeling Lost

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

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Being Alone, Giving, Feelings, Feeling Lost

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

topic: Heart, Hair, Feelings, Feeling Lost

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

topic: Song, Writing, Political, Feeling Lost

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Love, Inspirational, Feelings, Old Feelings, German Philosopher

I think there is something very consoling in feeling lost in space but also feeling grounded, and seeing that all of this is part of a bigger clockwork

- Wolfgang Tillmans

topic: Thinking, Space, Feelings, Feeling Lost, Consoling

I like to call amethyst the mother/healer/teacher/lover of the mineral kingdom because it is for lack of a better term an all purpose crystal. Feeling low? It'll help. Feeling lost? It will help. Need your mom? It will help. Need reassurance that you're making a positive choice in your life? It'll help.

- David

topic: Mom, Mother, Teacher, Feeling Low, Feeling Lost

The journey has been a parody of my life recently: rushing, waiting, wandering, feeling lost and losing sleep, wondering if I'm getting anywhere.

- Lynn Austin

topic: Sleep, Journey, Rushing, Feeling Lost

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

- Washington Irving

topic: Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Love And Heartbreak, Purifying

If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only as an occupation because you are feeling lost and there is nothing to do - a long holiday, so you start doing something... That is not coming out of your silences, it is coming out of your crazy mind.

- Rajneesh

topic: Crazy, Creativity, Holiday, Feeling Lost, Your Crazy

For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

- Diane Paulus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ocean, People, Feelings, Feeling Lost

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

- Thomas Szasz

topic: Happiness, Patience, Attitude, Funny Boredom, Feeling Lost

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Being Alone, Feelings, Longing, Feeling Lost

He was feeling totally lost, leaving his family and country for a place where he knew nobody and didn't even speak the language.

- Patrick Mouratoglou

topic: Country, Feelings, Leaving, Feeling Lost

You think you're grown in college but you're not, because everything is kind of controlled. You lose the camaraderie and suddenly find yourself alone in an apartment just feeling lost.

- Chris Bosh

source: Source: alanpaul.net

topic: Thinking, College, Feelings, Feeling Lost