“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
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
The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. — John Milton 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
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn. — Angelus Silesius 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
At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to… — Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Copy Share Image
George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and,… — Ilona Andrews 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
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
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
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
..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
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
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
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
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
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
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see… — Cloris Leachman 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
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
“Their eyes meet and part, each staring into the forlorn space, a shaft of disappointment, he because he is unable to help… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper 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
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl… — Lauren DeStefano 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
Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their… — George Orwell 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
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
