Bereft Quotes

44 Bereft quotes by 41 unique authors

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the… — David Bowie
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he… — Douglas MacArthur
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… — Charles Dickens
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed… — Loren Eiseley
But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of my life interesting… — Liza Dalby
If you can't be pretty, you have to learn to make yourself attractive. I found that all the pretty girls I went to high school… — Iris Apfel
Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up… — Lauren Willig
There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have… — Richard L. Evans
No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left. — Edwin Markham
Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.… — Marilyn Hacker
So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end… — Peter J. Carroll
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world… — Erica Jong
Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man — Dennis Prager
[...] 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
In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Comes now a smiling New-Born Year To fill to-day with goodly cheer— An infant hale and lusty. Upon our door-sill he is left By Daddy… — John Kendrick Bangs
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. — William Shakespeare
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone,… — George Matthew Adams
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height… — Bhartrhari
We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age. — Stefanie Powers
I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my… — Sophie Kinsella
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As… — William Shakespeare
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth… — John Milton
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a… — Neil Abramson
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought,… — Anthony Hopkins

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