„You are all a lost generation.“

— Gertrude Stein
„You are all a lost generation.[with credit to Gertrude Stein]“
— Ernest Hemingway
„All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation…“
— Gertrude Stein
„Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.“
— Franz Kafka
„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.“
— Dorothy Parker
„I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be“
— Ernest Hemingway
„All you need to be is generous with what you have, and the powers will be generous with you.“
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
„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, 'You know, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said 'That's it, that's right!“
— Jack Kerouac