Quotes of: Bereft Keyword

It was an oddly satisfying idea to feel bereft as I left my mother this time. We only feel bereft when we’re deprived of something meaningful.

Glass Girl

When Lillian (Holt) argues that leadership steals your spirit, she means that institutional pressures change you; they erode your courage, passion and humour and wear you down so that important things don't get named and get overtaken by the trivial....

Amanda Sinclair

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

Stefanie Powers

I have never felt bereft of anything.

Ben Kingsley

You'll be bereft without me.

Wait for You

Considering I'm a writer, you leave me strangely bereft of words.

All of Me

Destiny leaves no soul bereft of it's compliment." - Roald le Beau

Hidden Passions

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.

George Matthew Adams

Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.

Beth Henley

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Cities of the Plain

From heart to heart a heartbeat staggers, looking for a haven. Bereft. It is easier to enter heaven than to pass through each others' eyes

Selected and Collected Poems

I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?" "You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft.

Prophecy Girl

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

Petrus Borel

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

Richard Dawkins

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sumire was so bereft of household goods the place looked deserted. There weren't any curtains in the windows and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a gang of intellectual refugees.

Sputnik Sweetheart

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is ...

David Bowie

He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would never leave her bereft for the sun's warmth.

Joey W. Hill

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Complete Poems