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Quotes About Forlorn

I love bleak things.
~ Denise Mina
her face was like a party that everyone had left.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
a terrible place, a cursed place," he said dreamily
~ Donna Tartt
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
~ Raymond Chandler
A slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets.
~ Raymond Chandler
They were the walking dead.
~ Richard Bachman
She called him Bartleby, after the well-known scrivener: "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn." I likened him more to some form of rat terrier: arrogant.
~ Karin Slaughter
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
~ William Hazlitt
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
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.
~ Don Williams
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
The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.
~ John Keats
This was a music engendered in the dark reaches of the heart and soul. It took its rhythms from the slow beating of the pulse and the dragging of reluctant breath. It had never set the pace for sailors at sea or for farmers bringing in the harvest. It was city music, introspective and forlorn.
~ Jane Lindskold
Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
~ John Arbuthnot
Gust-driven rain spattered back and forth in hesitant indecisive sweeps like a wispy grey soul just arrived on the empty streets of some afterworld, lost and forlorn
~ William Peter Blatty
I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
~ William Wordsworth
I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.
~ David Rakoff
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I felt like an orphan.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
But of what use is it to be whitewashed and trim outside, to have pleasant creepers and tidy shutters, when inside one's soul wanders through empty rooms, mournfully shivers in damp and darkness, is hungry and no one brings it food, is cold and no one lights a fire, is miserable and tired and there's no chair to sit on?
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The line storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day,...
~ Robert Frost
Lord God, I feel so wretched! Lord God, I feel so wretched
~ Knut Hamsun
I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
~ zelazny roger ii