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Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've… — Bernard Cornwell
For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands. — C.S. Lewis
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. — Virginia Woolf
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told. — Stevie Smith
and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac
This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel… — Alice Munro
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything… — Barbara Mertz
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard… — John Keats
It was the day of the worms. That first almost-warm, after-the-rainy-night day in April, when you bolt from your house to find yourself in a… — Jerry Spinelli
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away.… — Robert Frost
I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. — Jane Austen
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient… — Charles Dickens
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two… — Beryl Markham
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn.… — Lauren DeStefano
On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the… — George Orwell
He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling… — Jeffrey Eugenides
George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and, in a theatrical… — Ilona Andrews
I miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the… — Tammara Webber

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