I always lacked common sense when taken by suprise.

“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”

— Anne Brontë

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”

— Gillian Flynn

“Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.”

— Paul Russell

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

— Anonymous

“They lacked something that could have been given to them if we’d only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I am wearied, as if I lacked a home to go to.

— Laozi

“he lacked the guts or the wisdom, or maybe just the talent, to indicate somehow that time was liquid, that one moment was no…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was happy, I wasnt beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasnt what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

“To be with her – that was all … all he yearned for and all he lacked. To be with her until the sun turned black.”

— Clémentine Beauvais

“Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.”

— George Orwell

“For all that she lacked your fire.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

— Jacqueline de Ribes

I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you

— Karuho Shiina

“Sometime before sleep it occurred to me that the true nature of being without might mean never knowing what one lacked.”

— Tosca Lee

“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.”

— Marcus Sakey