“I’m lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I’m still lost.”
Jim Butcher book Skin Game
Source: Skin Game
Source: Message in a Bottle
“I’m lost. I know every step I took to get here, and I’m still lost.”
Jim Butcher book Skin Game
Source: Skin Game
“Every moment of life is a step toward the grave.”
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1707–1777) French writer
Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.
Tite et Bérénice, I, 5.
Variant: Each instant of life is a step toward death.
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
"A Film Critic's Windy City Home' in The New York Times (13 February 2005) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/magazine/13DOMAINS.html?ex=1266987600&en=ee5831db9aa9dafb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt
“I am walking up the face of the mountain. Counting every step I climb.”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
"That's Me"
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
Context: I am walking up the face of the mountain. Counting every step I climb. Remembering the names of the constellations. Forgotten is a long, long time.
“All that I have lost I find at every step and remember that I have lost it.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.
Voces (1943)