Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

There have been times that I have found myself in places, and I don't know how I got there, and I don't actually know where I am.

I lost my way for a long time.

Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost.

The more that you follow me, the more I get lost

Today the earth is populated with billions of people desperately hoping to “get somewhere,” but having no idea of where they’re going.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

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

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

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

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

I realized I was on a something island. 'How did I get here,' I wondered, surrounded by Nothing, "and how can I get back?

We only know how to lose and be lost.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

Every day is the same thing out the door Feel further away then ever before Some things in life, it gets too late to learn Well, I'm lost somewhere I must have made a few bad turns

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.