Forlorn Man Quotes

#1. I suddenly saw the little hobo standing under a sad street lamp with his thumb stuck out
poor forlorn man, poor lost sometime boy, now broken ghost of the penniless wilds.

Jack Kerouac

#2. The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

William Hazlitt

#3. You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Robin Williams

#4. Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself."1

Max Lucado

#5. The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.

Neil Gaiman

#7. 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

#8. I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the government to hear the views of a broad range of groups to make sure we get the best.

Andrew Lansley

#9. People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Samuel Butler

#10. I know all about the wildness of youth, believe me. But regret has a terrible ability to follow you, long after youth has vanished

Erika Johansen

#11. It will be a welcome change for her to feel his hands on her hips and his breath in her hair; She's been forlorn, but like all emotions, even loneliness doesn't last. She has fallen in love with the man with the quiet strength, the confident humility and the hands that show the flame of the heart.

Donna Lynn Hope

#12. Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

Barbara Castle

#13. 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

#14. Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

Julian Burnside

#15. Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

H.L. Mencken

#16. 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