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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
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe,
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Failure has its successes.
— Brian Howard
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?
— Erich Maria Remarque
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. — Grace Burrowes
Word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.
— Guy Deutscher
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
— Ernest Hemingway,
In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone. — 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
...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.
— John Clellon Holmes
You are all a lost generation.
— Gertrude Stein
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
— Alanis Morissette
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.
— Corey Stoll
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential
— Malala Yousafzai
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.
— Harold Edmund Stearns
For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.
— Mary E. Pearson
I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
— Nico Muhly
It's an actual book-book. Something I thought was lost on this generation of internet fiends.
— Colleen Hoover
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
— Erica Jong
Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.
— Harold Edmund Stearns
What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing?
— Ernest Hemingway,
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
— Franz Kafka
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
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
— Andrew Strauss
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
— Robbie Robertson