Sherman Alexie Quotes

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.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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.

Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

I know how it feels to lose.

I have had my share of flops and it's very discouraging. It's pathetic to be on that side.

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

You should despair and run away.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

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