Lost Generation Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.
— Gertrude Stein
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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said…
— Jack Kerouac
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After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
— Ron Chernow
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Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San…
— John Steinbeck
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Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
— Robbie Robertson
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
— Franz Kafka
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You are all a lost generation.
— Gertrude Stein
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You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go…
— James Thurber
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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
— Ernest Hemingway
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
— Umberto Eco
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So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are…
— Johnny Cash
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Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said,…
— Dorothy Parker
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We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked.
— Charles Eddie Wiseman
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We're the lost generation, have no place to go. The road to destruction is all we need to know.
— Van Halen
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Death comes with Life...We all know that but many people are so worried about dying that they forget to really live...Whats worse? Dying with something…
— Jasari
Who Wrote These Lost Generation Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Lost Generation Quotes as follows: