Forlorn Quotes
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Apoplexie and lethargie,As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
— Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.
— David Mitchell
It's funny. That feeling of home. It's so temporary, like bathwater: the warmth eventually grows cold.
— K.M. Alexander
I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well sowhat's next? — Lionel Shriver
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not bornin thee thy soul is still forlorn. — Angelus Silesius
The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn. — John Keats
America is rich and fat and very, very noticeable in this world. It is a forlorn hope that we should be left alone.
— T.R. Fehrenbach
To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.
— Bruce Crown
It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
— Winston S. Churchill
I believed him because the truth is never hard to recognize. Nothing is ever quite so drab and repetitious and forlorn and ludicrous as truth.
— Budd Schulberg
Hello, beautiful creature of the night. Why so forlorn? Play for me your melody of eternal sorrow.
— Anonymous
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
— William Hazlitt
The night comes on that knows not morn,When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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
And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old
— Jack Kerouac
My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been born
She sits in the cold
No word she says is ever told. — Stevie Smith
It was simpler just to keep things simple.
— Bruce Crown
My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
— Charlotte Bronte
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
— Virginia Woolf
There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
Even in her mind the words had the forlorn gallantry of someone whistling in the dark.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
She, herself, was so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.
— D.H. Lawrence
We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate.
— Robert W. Service
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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!
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The saddest thing in the world is to see a man die wearing the forlorn expression of someone who has failed to fulfill his dreams.
— Felix J. Palma
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
Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.
— Richard Watson Gilder
For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
— Walter De La Mare
Posteritythe forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism
grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley
