Top 100 Quotes About Forsaken
#1. If scattered and forsaken bricks are enough to build a house, a wise man will collect them and build one
Kenneth Mahuka
#2. Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.
J.C. Ryle
#3. The long lonely cry of a suffering boy he could not help chilled Magnus through to the bone, like cold water seeping through to find a grave. Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.
Even the Nephilim.
Cassandra Clare
#4. You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Anonymous
#5. 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
#6. If you have a bright idea with such significance, don't pause but push, play and display that concept, it will be recognized or be seen somehow and it will not be forsaken.
( Taken from my forthcoming book " Ency Bearis' Ameliorated Poems" )
Ency Bearis
#8. How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#9. Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
John Piper
#10. I am not sorry, but this has hurt my heart and spirit more than all the other trials, for being forsaken is worse than being killed. (Sept 5, 1881)
Nancy E. Turner
#11. There are two healings: nature's, and ours and nature's. Nature's will come in spite of us, after us, over the graves of its wasters, as it comes to the forsaken fields. The healing that is ours and nature's will come if we are willing, if we are patient, if we know the way, if we will do the work.
Wendell Berry
#12. Lord, help my children to make godly friends. I know that You brought us here and You will not leave my children forsaken. I'm concerned that in their need for acceptance they'll end up with friends whose moral standards are not as high as Yours. Bring godly role models into their lives.
Stormie O'martian
#13. 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
#14. His neglected heart, forsaken, isolated, was more lonely than the ace of hearts in the middle of a playing card.
Violet Trefusis
#15. Ah, that's an argument I hear often," Father Alberto said. "How can a God exist when it seems so many have been forsaken? But you fail to realize, son, without the bad we can't truly appreciate the good.
J.M. Darhower
#16. The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.
Cormac McCarthy
#17. This is a forsaken place ... I can think of no use for a place like this, except that you could say of it: I saw the heart of nothing, and survived.
Clive Barker
#18. The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.
Robert Farrar Capon
#19. There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot
#20. Nineveh, Tyre, a God-forsaken railway in Siam, Dorrigo Evans said, flame
Richard Flanagan
#21. 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
#22. When we feel so alone, we cannot presume to teach him who, at the apogee of his agony, trod "the winepress alone" anything about feeling forsaken.
Neal A. Maxwell
#23. The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
Marguerite Duras
#24. 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
#25. Hear these words, "My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?" and know that the Son of God has taken our place, become for us the abandonment our sin produces, so that we may live confident that the world has been redeemed by this cross. So
Stanley Hauerwas
#26. Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
Khalil Gibran
#27. Thus it seems that the Cross of Christ, laden with every sinful refusal of man, must stand at the very last extremity of hell; indeed, it must stand beyond hell, where the Son is forsaken by the Father in a way that only he can know.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#28. To condemn Wordsworth for not writing verse of political and social protest, or for having forsaken the revolution, is to cross the final divide between academic arrogance and moral smugness.
Harold Bloom
#29. I had worn that gold ring for nearly thirty years; token of vows taken, forsaken, renewed, and at last absolved. A token of marriage, of family; of a large part of my life. And the last trace of Frank - whom, in spite of everything, I had loved. Jamie
Diana Gabaldon
#30. It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.
Cassandra Clare
#34. Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. 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
#36. Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken. Across these deep valleys a glorious causeway of grace must be raised.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. That's right," he said. "I created a a bunch of Forsaken Warriors, had them attack the Institute and kill Madeleine and nearly kill the rest of us, just so that I could keep Clary from at home. And lo and behold, my diabolical plan is working.
Cassandra Clare
#38. Far from breaking with tradition, they understood the Great War and its aftermath in the light of tradition, believing, as did their literary and spiritual ancestors, that ours is a fallen world yet not a forsaken one.
Philip Zaleski
#39. As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.
George MacDonald
#40. There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
Johan Huizinga
#41. He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite worship of God, just as there is an infinite succession of sins through unbelief, or the loss of faith. It
Martin Luther
#42. As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences.
Michael J. Fox
#43. I'd won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I'd lost
my map.
Anne Sexton
#44. Bernie let out the most pitiful wail heard since that god-forsaken day in 1942 when Bambi's mom was shot.
Fred Barnett
#45. To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Saint Augustine
#46. For all whose hope is in God
storms may rage
they will not be shaken,
robbers may come
nothing is taken,
troubles may endure
they are never forsaken.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
George MacDonald
#48. A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.
John Ray
#49. Why couldn't the two of them have gone on and on forever? Himself and Constance, sun and moon, each one of them shining, though in different ways. Instead of which he's here, forsaken by her, abandoned. In time, which fails to sustain him. In space, which fails to cradle him.
Margaret Atwood
#50. Abigail ... His heart ached for his little girl, and the loss of his family drove like a blade through his heart. His head jerked up as the creak of a timber echoed overhead. If only they hadn't come to this god-forsaken place.
Caroline Mitchell
#51. Love masters agony; the soul that seemed
Forsaken feels her present God again
And in her Father's arms
Contented dies away.
John Keble
#52. Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.
Mark Twain
#53. Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.
Sterling W. Sill
#54. He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.
Chanakya
#55. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on.
Yann Martel
#56. 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
#57. When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#58. False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.
Samuel Johnson
#59. The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.
William Peter Blatty
#60. Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.
Max Anders
#61. We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It's easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#62. 13. And Gideon said to him, Oh my lord, if the LORD* is with us, why then has all this befallen us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, Did not the LORD* bring us up from Egypt? But now the LORD* has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
Anonymous
#63. The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.
Auliq Ice
#64. Yes, a ghost, thought the Count, as he moved silently down the hall. Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch . . . Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat . . . Why
Amor Towles
#65. My God had not spoken again. But neighter had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that
Marcus Luttrell
#66. Music helps to forget
This forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#67. Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#68. And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?
Garth Stein
#69. Was that what Nell had done, too? Forsaken the life and the family she'd been given, to focus instead on the one she'd been without.
Kate Morton
#70. Instead, it is the reality that the God-forsaken one experienced in an eminent way because no one can even approximately experience the abandonment by God as horribly as the Son, who shares the same essence with the Father for all eternity.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#72. The Agat Institute was a God- and state-forsaken outfit inhabited by dead souls and a few disoriented live ones like Yekaterina, who was put to work developing software for the weapons-control system of a nuclear submarine.
Masha Gessen
#73. If aught must be lost, 'twill be my honor for yours. If one must be forsaken, 'twill be my soul for yours. Should death come anon, 'twill be my life for yours. I am Given.
Karen Marie Moning
#74. All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe
#75. Eve hated that she had these questions, and that the only man she wanted to talk to about them was David. Have I just forsaken Beckett?
Debra Anastasia
#76. Love requires no return. It gives even when forsaken.
Michelle Griep
#77. 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
#78. Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil wants you to believe God no longer loves you, but it isn't true. God's love for us never fails.
Billy Graham
#79. All mountain streets have streams to thread them, or deep grooves where a stream might run. You would do well to avoid that range uncomforted by singing floods. You will find it forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God.
Mary Hunter Austin
#80. Thou art every where, Whom no place encompasseth! and Thou alone art near, even to those that remove far from Thee. Let them then be turned, and seek Thee; because not as they have forsaken their Creator, hast Thou forsaken Thy creation.
Augustine Of Hippo
#81. You held on to him In that forsaken bed He's distant, cold - Nothing else could be said.
Dawn Lanuza
#82. Tada references the accusation in Jeremiah that the people have forsaken God as Living Water by remembering a hiking trip from her younger days. Reaching a clear stream at the end of her trip, she emptied her canteen of the warm, metallic-tasting water and filled up on fresh water.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#83. When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.
Jules Verne
#85. Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Matthew Arnold
#86. Any religious, philosophical or political idea that doesn't lead one towards love ought to be forsaken
Michael Gungor
#87. Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
John Hay
#88. When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
Thomas Hood
#89. The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'.
Black Thought
#90. Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
C.S. Lewis
#91. Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy; it saps your emotional strength and causes you to become emotionally exhausted (i.e., depressed).
Lou Priolo
#92. Unfortunately those eyes - his eyes - never fade. They've haunted my dreams for years." - Hannah (Forsaken)
Kristen Day
#93. The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!
Napoleon Bonaparte
#94. Truth is not of this world; and they were fools who looked for her in the bottom of a well; her temple is the grave! her oracles, dust and ashes! ("The Forsaken of God")
William Mudford
#95. And when we feel forsaken, hopeless, and in despair, we pray to one who walked this path before us.
Adam Hamilton
#96. 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
#97. Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.
Jim Diamond
#98. The proud man is forsaken of God.
Plato
#99. I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.
Abraham Lincoln
#100. Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.
Robert D. Hales
