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Quotes About Forsaken

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah
~ Khalid ibn al-Walid
To speak the truth, as truth to me appeared, Caused noisy protests, I was hooted down. Such unpleasant incidents occurred That I ran off so as to be alone, Into the wilds. Utterly forsaken, I took at last the Devil for companion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
~ Anonymous
Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.
~ Francine Rivers
In the early church their first love was forsaken after a time, and they placed their confidence in all the activities of service. And they were told in no uncertain terms, "You have forsaken your first love" (Revelation 2:4). And this is the tragedy: We keep ourselves busy with the things of the Lord and not with the Lord of the things.
~ Andrew Murray
After all, what is hell but the eternal absence of God? To exist in a hellish state is to be denied forever the promise of hope, of redemption, of love. To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography.
~ John Connolly
And your eyes pass over me as if I don't exist.
~ Anne Rice
Help me....Hellmouth, oh where art thou, hellmouth? Why have you forsaken me in my hour of desperation? Open quick and I'll throw myself in.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
~ Augustine of Hippo
The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.
~ Mark Helprin
My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jer. 2:13).
~ John Piper
Most of mankind's misery stems from feeling unloved. In the midst of adverse circumstances, people tend to feel that love has been withdrawn and they have been forsaken. This feeling of abandonment is often worse than the adversity itself.
~ Sarah Young
No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Love masters agony; the soul that seemed Forsaken feels her present God again And in her Father's arms Contented dies away.
~ John Keble
Few and far between now, lost and forsaken; the bitter end of a once brilliant dream.
~ Simon R. Green
Aquellos que aquí entráis perded toda esperanza
~ Meg Gardiner
must have looked forsaken standing there because she clucked her tongue against the roof of her mouth and said, "Poor Miss Sarah." I did so despise the attachment of Poor to my name. Binah had been muttering Poor Miss Sarah like an incantation since I was four.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
I am compelled to plead my own defence before this Court. There are two reasons: first, because I have been deprived almost entirely of legal advice; second, because only he who has been outraged as deeply as I, and who has seen his country so forsaken, its justice so reviled, can speak on an occasion like this with words made of the blood of his own heart and the very marrow of truth.
~ Fidel Castro
Be not foolish, O my soul, nor become deaf in the ear of thine heart with the tumult of thy folly. Hearken thou too. The Word itself calleth thee to return: and there is the place of rest imperturbable, where love is not forsaken, if itself forsaketh not.
~ St. Augustine
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
~ Saint Augustine
The day was lit with the beauty of the land forsaken, the night by the horror of returning to it. The day would show her the paradise she had lost; the night, the hell she had fled.
~ Milan Kundera
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
~ Matthew Simpson
25I was once young, but now I'm old. Not once have I found a lover of God forsaken by him, nor have any of their children gone hungry.
~ Brian Simmons