Forlorn Quotes
61 quotes by 54 authors
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish…
— Mark Twain
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England…
— William Cowper
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"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are…
— Douglas MacArthur
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with…
— Frank Drake
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Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and…
— Simon McKeon
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it…
— Cloris Leachman
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Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic…
— John Keats
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Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man…
— H. L. Mencken
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Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig…
— Matthew Scully
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Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make…
— William Wordsworth
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not…
— Anthony Trollope
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Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
— Don Williams
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Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly…
— George Orwell
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Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me; he…
— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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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
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We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.
— Michael Ondaatje
Who Wrote These Forlorn Quotes
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