Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

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.

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

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.

Let's start at 35 because I don't know where it is.

A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He began raging at himself for getting lost, until a realization allowed him to transcend his ire. "How can I be lost? I've never been here before?" pp 104-105

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to 'Sesame Street,' and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

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

For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

I have a horrible sense of direction. I could get lost a mile away from my house.

I get lost a lot.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

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

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.