Lost Generation Quotes

Lost Generation Quote of the day

You are all a lost generation.

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.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

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, 'Whee! We're lost.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

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 home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

Failure has its successes.

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

I know what you're doing, though.""I'm glad somebody knows what I'm about, because I seem to have lost my own grasp of it entirely.

I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.