It’s completely normal in life to feel lost at times, though it’s not easy to deal with. No one wants to feel empty, without hope or directionless. Let the list of wise and insightful quotes below on being lost offer a bit of solace.
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered — so many locks not enough keys.Sarah Dessen
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.Henry David Thoreau
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri
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When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.Josh Kaufman
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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
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.Michel de Montaigne
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The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.Maimonides
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Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.Voltaire
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Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.Blaise Pascal
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Many of us know nothing other than a directionless cadence, having left the footprints of our lives meandering down a road that's meandering itself.Craig D Lounsbrough
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When you are directionless like we are right now, people are looking for something to hang their hat on.John Pickett
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What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.Sheena Iyengar
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It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.Dr. Rollo May
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A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.Thomas Wolfe
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Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.Dave Ramsey
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I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.Neil Gaiman
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I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.Margaret Fuller
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.Alain De Botton
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If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.Christopher Fry
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It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.Michelle Williams
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It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.Willie Aames
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Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?Billy Graham
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.Christian Nestell Bovee
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.Albert Camus
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You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.Bob Parsons
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My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.Mason Cooley
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.Joseph B. Wirthlin
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When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.Kim Cattrall
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The art of being bored is lost.Ted Klauber
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I'm gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I'm determined to get through it.Gareth Evans
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When you are feeling lost or confused...just remember you are a cross-section of four-space.Thomas Richter
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Feeling lost? Good! Now you get to walk new paths that lead to much better places.Robin S Sharma
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There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change.Ritu Ghatourey
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Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is awake.Victor Hugo
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Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.Steve Brown
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I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.Steve Mcqueen
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I lost my head for a little while.John Mayer
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I got lost but look what I found.Irving Berlin
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We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.Paulo Coelho
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We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost.David R. Brower
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If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.Laurence Olivier
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Be Thankful for all things in life. Even for the bad things. SOMETIMES the worst situations in life turn out to be the best things that ever happened to us.John Wilson
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To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.Alex Ebert
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When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'Josh Groban
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.Denis Waitley
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In life, No matter what you are going through, have faith, and believe your sorrows won't last forever because what time does not heal God will.Rashida Rowe
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It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.Stephen Covey
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I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.Lil Wayne
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.Nelson Mandela
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.Rainer Maria Rilke
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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
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Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.Zig Ziglar
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.Dale Carnegie
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Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.Karl Ove Knausgård
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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.Louisa May Alcott
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However confused the scene of our life appears, however, torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.Muriel Rukeyser
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I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.Gayle Forman
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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
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If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.Steve Jobs
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If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.Nora Roberts
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If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.Maya Angelou
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If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.Gordon A. Eadie
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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
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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.Vincent Van Gogh
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It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.K.T. Jong
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It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.Dalai Lama
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Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.Charles Xavier
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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.Vivian Greene
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Man is almost mad—mad because he is seeking something which he has already got; mad because he’s not aware of who he is; mad because he hopes, desires and then ultimately, feels frustrated. Frustration is bound to be there because you cannot find yourself by seeking; you are already there. The seeking has to stop, the search has to drop: that is the greatest problem to be faced, encountered.Osho
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No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight.Lana Del Rey
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Not all those who wander are lost.J.R.R. Tolkien
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Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through the tears.Demi Lovato
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One day you will ask me which is more important, my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.Kahlil Gibran
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.Henry Rollins
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Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.Erol Ozan
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Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.Mandy Hale
The creative is the place where no-one else has ever been.You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.Alan Alda
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The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.Sam Cawthorn
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The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.Roy T. Bennett
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The quiet sense of something lost.Alfred Tennyson
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The Truth is, we all get lost as we try to find our way. Perhaps the key is to stop, take a look around and enjoy the scenery as we go.JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.George Bernard Shaw
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There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais Nin
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To get lost is to learn the way.African Proverb
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Tough times never last, but tough people do.Robert H. Schuller
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in the sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.Mark Twain
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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
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
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We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.Dr. Henry Link
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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.Maya Angelou
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.Joseph Campbell
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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
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.Henry Ford
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You can’t start the next chapter if you keep re-reading the last one.unknown
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You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.Mariah Carey