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  • The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

    Death   Night   And Love  
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics
  • For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

    Mind   Lasts   Glory  
    C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

    Worry   Despair   Trying  
  • As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

    Drama   Cowboy   Pigs  
  • Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

    Dream   Crazy   Mad  
  • Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

    Perfect   Dancer   Brave  
  • Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

    Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
  • ..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.

    Men   Swooning   Female  
  • There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

    The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)
  • Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

    Regret   Winning   Hands  
  • I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.

    Lonely   Autumn   Night  
    Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics
  • He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

    "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.
  • The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

    Nodding   Horror   Shady  
    John Milton (2006). “L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

    Passion   Men   Letters  
    William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.237
  • A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

    War   Cities   Paris  
    Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan
  • I miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the words hushed and forlorn. "Why does it hurt now?" I'm sighing and shoving a hand through my hair, which I know from experience leaves strands of it stabbing out in numerous directions, defiant and crazy-looking. Maybe crazy is exactly how I feel. "Because now we have hope of something more.

    Hurt   Crazy   Eye  
    Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.182, Tammara Webber
  • Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home, She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

    Song   Home   Heart  
    "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)
  • 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!

  • Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

    Music   Stars   Forlorn  
  • 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!

  • We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.

    Males   World   Habit  
  • Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

    Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.825, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn; The same that ofttimes hath Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.

    Heart   Home   Sea  
    "Ode to a Nightingale" l. 61 (1820)
  • Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

    Soul   Christ   Thee  
  • In terms of you happiness, in terms of the matters that make you proud or sad, nothing-I repeat, nothing-will have so profound an effect on you as the way your children turn out. You will either rejoice and boast of their accomplishments or you will weep, head in hands, bereft and forlorn, if they become a disappointment or an embarrassment to you.

  • Great God! 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

    Prayer   Blow   Sight  
    "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 10 (1807)
  • On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are.

    Girl   Tiptoes   Forlorn  
    Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
  • For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

    Heart   Men   People  
  • Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.

  • Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

    The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)
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