The quiet sense of something lost

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

— Jack Kornfield

I like a quiet life, you know me.

— Anonymous

For after the Battle comes quiet.

— Anonymous

I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the…

— David Jeremiah

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of…

— George Will

For me, there is nothing that encapsulates both our misguided response to the attacks of September 11th and the entire Iraq war itself more…

— Seth Moulton

I feel like my life has been a series of miracles. I was in every sense a lost cause.

— Liz Murray

Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and…

— Lauren Oliver

“Elizabeth, with sarcasm and a sense of being lost: Oh indeed! Indeed!”

— Arthur Miller

“Such visible failure and a sense of lost moorings can be – for the individual as for society – not only a cause for…

— Douglas Murray

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

— David Oyelowo

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the…

— Henry Beston

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense,…

— Carl Jung

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

— Anonymous