Apoplexie and lethargie, As forlorn hope, assault the enemy. — Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas 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
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. — David Mitchell 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
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
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That… — Walter de La Mare 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
“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
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
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
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain 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
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
In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
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
“If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
