Lost Generation Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

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
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
After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation. — Ron Chernow
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
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation. — Robbie Robertson
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations. — Franz Kafka
You are all a lost generation. — Gertrude Stein
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
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] — Ernest Hemingway
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. — Umberto Eco
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
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
We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked. — Charles Eddie Wiseman
We're the lost generation, have no place to go. The road to destruction is all we need to know. — Van Halen
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: