Forlorn Quotes

61 quotes by 54 authors

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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen
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
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
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
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
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
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
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. — Don Williams
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
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
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
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
We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. Itâ€™s a male habit. — Michael Ondaatje

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