Forlorn Quotes - page 2

All her youth is gone, her beautiful youth outworn, Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home No longer know her step on the upland tracks forlorn Where she was wont to roam. (Vita Sackville-West)
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 sweet it is to die! View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I'm sure you didn't mean to hurt anyone.” Madoc Roswyn laughed a soft forlorn laugh. "The sad truth is that I didn't care-which may be worse. View quote
Jack Vance
We drove into the Los Angeles Black Belt, Central Avenue, night clubs, abandoned apartment houses, broken-down business houses, the forlorn street of poverty for the Negro and swank for the whites. View quote
John Fante
I conceived the whole life of the cosmos not as an immensely protracted and leisurely passage from a remote and shadowy source to a glorious and a still more remote eternity, but as a brief, a headlong and forlorn, race against galloping time. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
But no, the friend's indictment was off target; he simply liked them tall, as long as they didn't slump down in a forlorn effort to appear shorter. It seemed obvious to him that no woman looked good trying to be something she wasn't. View quote
Gregory Benford
I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them. View quote
Jane Austen
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. View quote
Dick Cavett
The Natives of the Country now Possessed by the New-Englanders, had been forlorn and wretched Heathen ever since their first herding there; and tho' we know not When or How those Indians first became Inhabitants of this mighty Continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoy'd those miserable Salvages hither, in hopes that the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his Absolute Empire over them. View quote
Cotton Mather
Last night we owned, with looks forlorn, "Too well the scholar knows There is no rose without a thorn" - But peace is made! We sing, this morn, "No thorn without a rose!" Our Latin lesson is complete: We've learned that Love is Bitter-Sweet! (Lewis Carroll)
The Forlorn Hope was for the brave. It may have been a courage born of desperation, or foolhardiness, but it was courage just the same. (pg. 13) View quote
Bernard Cornwell
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial-I believe we are lost. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
If I needed you, would you come to me? Would you come to me and ease my pain? If you needed me, I would come to you I'd swim the seas for to ease your pain Well, in the night forlorn, oh, the morning's born And the morning shines with the lights of love And you will miss sunrise if you close your eyes And that would break my heart in twoThe lady's with me now since I showed her how To lay her lily hand in mine Loop and Lil agree, she's a sight to see A treasure for the poor to find. View quote
Townes Van Zandt
This summer which was now passing-never had anyone lived such a summer! Nature had given him the happiness of a blossom. She gave him love and a palace, and put precious poetry into his mouth; it was all one long, unbroken romance. And now everything was lost, his poems, his love and his palace, withered, burnt; forlorn and helpless, he faced the desolation of winter. View quote
Halldór Laxness
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toil me back from thee to my sole self! View quote
John Keats
In this forlorn state I find life dreary indeed: if a stream beckoned, I would gladly cut my roots and float away like duckweed. View quote
Ono no Komachi
Who sits alone by the bright window? My shadow and I, only we two. But the lamp burns out, there is darkness. Even my shadow forsakes me. Alas, alas! I am forlorn! View quote
Li Qingzhao
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was often sunk in forlorn reveries. View quote
Richard Elman
Shelley was a young fool; so are these cocksparrow revolutionaries. But it is better to be a fool than to be dead. 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 and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
In a social environment that is ever crowded and impersonal, it is becoming increasingly important to reconsider the value of close personal relationships before we are driven to ask the forlorn question, 'Whatever happened to love?' View quote
Desmond Morris
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn. View quote
Alice Meynell
The show of weeping and of ruth To the forlorn will all men pay, But of the grief their eyes display, Nought to the heart doth pierce its way. And, with the joyous, they beguile Their lips unto a feigned smile. View quote
Aeschylus
But still the great public opinion of the free States was unmoved. It cried angrily, 'You're only making matters worse. It's very hard, but what can we do? It's none of our business. It's none of our business'. But when 1850 came, and theory was found to be fact, when the man who was angrily crying, 'It's none of my business, what have I to do with slavery?' suddenly felt the quivering, panting fugitive clinging to his knees - a wretched, forlorn, outcast, hunted man, guilty of no crime but color, and begging the succor that no honest man would refuse to a cur cowering on his threshold - then, as he stood aghast and heard Slavery thundering at his door, 'I am the law. Give me my prey! Give me my prey! View quote
George William Curtis