Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

Not all those who wander are lost.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

How can you get very far, If you don't know who you are? How can you do what you ought, If you don't know what you've got? And if you don't know which to do Of all the things in front of you, Then what you'll have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know What and Which and Who.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

We're lost, but we're making good time.

I personally think that you have to get lost to find something really worthwhile, at least sometimes.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?