Lost Myself Quotes

• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• I had totally lost my way. I lost focus. I lost myself.

  Britney Spears

  Focus, Way, Lost

  "Britney Spears: 'I Had Let People Into My Life That Were Just Bad People'" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. November 20, 2008.

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• I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Trying, Finding Happiness, Lost

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.76, Bantam

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• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Trust, Children

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• It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Schedules, Lost

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• All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Grief, Self

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.194, Profile Books

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• I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Order, Lost, Awake

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• Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

  John Milton

  Death, War, Paradise

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 263 (1667)

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• I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this

  Victoria Principal

  Trying, Lost, Expected

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• There are times when I worry that I've already lost myself. That is, that my self is so inseparable from being with you that if we were to separate, I would no longer be. I save this thought for when I feel the darkest discontent. I never meant to depend so much on someone else.

  David Levithan

  Self, Worry, Lost

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Flower, Cutting, Sea

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• I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, People, Bed

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.

  Matt Haig

  Love Is, Scary, Challenges

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• I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?

  Maria Shriver

  Gone, Today, Lost

  "Maria Shriver Talks To Oprah About Being First Lady: 'I Cried A Lot... I Still Cry'". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2008.

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• At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Temptation, Bears, Impatience

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• I lost myself to music at a very early age, and I remained there.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Age, Lost

  "Achieving Music Diversity: Three Keys to a Quality Streaming Music Experience", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2017.

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• I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Loss, Agony

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.143, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

  George Jung

  People, Coke, Degrees

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

  Amy Tan

  Moving, Moon, Remembers Everything

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.83, Penguin

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• I stared up in disbelief at the information my eyes fed my brain, and lost myself to the stars.
  For the first time in my life I had a greater idea of how infinitesimally small our planet really is and, furthermore, how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the vast universe.
  I took a seat on a rock next to Lily and took in the moment to comprehend the vastness of everything else, and the incredible smallness of I.

  Craig Stone

  Stars, Eye, Ideas

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• And so, while the rest of the world went on unaware, drinking their coffee, reading the sports page, and picking up their dry cleaning, I leaned forward and kissed Dexter, making a choice that would change everything. Maybe somewhere there was a ripple, a bit of jump, some small shift in the universe, barely noticeable. I didn’t feel it then. I felt only him kissing me back, easing me into the sunlight as I lost myself in the taste of him and felt the world go on, just as it always had, all around us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Sports, Drinking, Coffee

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.85, Penguin

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• It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own reality and something hollow will settle in my chest. Sometimes, I'll watch a movie all over again just to recapture that feeling of being inside something real. Which, I know, doesn't make any sense.

  Gayle Forman

  Real, Feelings, Good Movie

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.17, Penguin

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• You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Dying, Trying, Popcorn

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.76, Bantam

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