Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas Copy Share Image
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“She, herself, was so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who… — Simon McKeon Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Even though kids may have planned for months for the trip to Disneyland, some may be feeling very homesick, very forlorn, or… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter… — Dorothy Dix Copy Share Image
Deceiving world, that with alluring toysHast made my life the subject of thy scorn,And scornest now to lend thy fading joys,T'outlength my… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy. — John Milton Copy Share Image
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
