The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“Man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“How hard it is to become a man again when one has ceased to be a man." -The Lost Steps” — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort. — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
“He had walked away, head down, feet shuffling, looking very much like a young man who had lost everything of value in… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.” — Munindra Misra Copy Share Image
“They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“...the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's that great Irish joke: a man is lost in the countryside, stops a passer-by: 'how do I get to Dublin?'. The… — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man went to Istanbul, his first visit there. On his way to a business meeting, this man lost his way. He… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to, he has… — Hazel B. West Copy Share Image
“What then is to become of man? Will he be the equal of god or the beasts? What a terrifying distance! What… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“I seriously don’t understand how men came to rule the world,” she’d said to her sister, Bridget, this morning, after she’d told… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Such a man is like a dreamer who wakes from a dream of grief to a greater sorrow yet. All that he… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There was a man here, lashed himself to a spar as his ship went down, and for seven days and seven nights… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Often in a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image