I have never felt bereft of anything.

Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd…

— Jonathan Franzen

The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that women and…

— Geena Davis

How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and…

— Geraldine Brooks

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his…

— Abraham Coles

[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.

— Henry Makow

By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We…

— Matthew Fox

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

— Robert Browning

So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just…

— Peter J. Carroll

I have not spoken in three years: not since I left boot camp. It has been three years of a senseless war, and though…

— Chris Abani

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Madam, you have bereft me of all words.

— Anonymous

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

— William Shakespeare

“You'll be bereft without me.”

— J. Lynn

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

— Dennis Prager

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

— John Milton