Bereft Quotes

Bereft Quote of the day

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

O father, father Gone from us, lost to us, The church lies bereft, Alone, Desecrated, desolated. And the heathen shall build On the ruins Their world without God. I see it. I see it.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

Political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks tenderness. It lacks poetry. It doesn't nurture. It doesn't love. And without those things, a woman's soul is bereft.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

You are never bereft of your inner guidance.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway [sic] I can add them.

Men feel more bereft without a woman than women will feel bereft without a man

The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

I have never felt bereft of anything.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

One's child is always one's child no matter what age they might be. You worry when your child makes a noise, when he doesn't. It's a terrible kind of love. Terrible.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

A story is a wondrous invention.

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...