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Quotes About Forsaken

It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me
~ Carson McCullers
When we see what blood we spill, we call out to the gods, but they have forsaken us. We shout to the ancestors; only the sound of the waters answers back. We are left to the mercy which we have for each other.
~ Calvin Baker
Because right now, I'm worse than dead. I'm forgotten.
~ Geoff Johns
Wild were his dreams, and oft he rose in fright,Waked by his view of horrors in the night,—Horrors that would the sternest minds amaze,Horrors that demons might be proud to raise:And though he felt forsaken, grieved at heart,To think he lived from all mankind apart,Yet, if a man approached, in terrors he would start.
~ George Crabbe
I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge...the blindingly beautiful edge.
~ Susan Kay
For four years he lived in Brooklyn, and four years in Brooklyn are a geologic age -- a single stratum of grey time. They were years of poverty, of desperation, of loneliness unutterable. All about him were the poor, the outcast, the neglected and forsaken people of America, and he was one of them. But life is strong, and year after year it went on around him in all its manifold complexity, rich with its unnoticed and unrecorded little happenings.
~ Thomas Wolfe
Every feeling hath been shaken; Pride, which not a world could bow, Bows to thee - by thee forsaken, Even my soul forsakes me now.
~ George Gordon Byron
Being left behind was a special kind of loss. —
~ J.R. Ward
The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.
~ Auliq Ice
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
~ Honore de Balzac
In this pittifull (or rather pittilesse) perplexitie stood London, forsaken like a Lover, forlorne like a widow, and disarmde of all comfort.
~ Thomas Dekker
O thou great, unknown Power! Thou Almighty God, who hast lighted up reason in my breast and blessed me with immortality! I have frequently wandered from that order and regularity necessary for the perfection of thy works, yet thou hast never left me nor forsaken me.
~ Robert Burns
Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.
~ Colum McCann
The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He who is abandoned is an abandoner.
~ Walter Isaacson
I have been through the gates, I have groped, I have crept Back, back. There is dust in the streets, and blood; they are empty; darkness is over them; His heart is a place with the lights gone out, forsaken by great winds and the heavenly rain, unclean and unswept, Like the heart of the holy city, old, blind, beautiful Jerusalem, Over which Christ wept.
~ Charlotte Mew
Jesus was willing to be the forsaken brother so that we could have godly relationships. Jesus was willing to be the crucified King so that our communities would experience peace.
~ Timothy S. Lane
He called out to his father. Since that moment, night after night I hear the man's cry echoing in my soul. He speaks like no man I have ever heard before. He invites one of the thieves to join him that very night in the heavens. He asks his father to forgive us. He asks his father why he is forsaken. And then he says three final words: It is finished. And he leaves.
~ Janette Oke
BILL: I have not forsook my responsibilities!- BARBARA: It's "forsaken," big shot! BILL: Actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage!- BARBARA: Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rose in on!
~ Tracy Letts
No one ever came here; people just went away from it and never returned.
~ Paul Theroux
Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon.
~ William Shakespeare
I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.
~ J. M. Coetzee
It's from Scandinavia! This, we learned, was the name of a region, a cold and forsaken place where people stayed indoors and plotted the death of knobs.
~ David Sedaris
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
~ Honore de Balzac