Forlornness Quotes

If hers are the stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in between.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.