Bereft Quotes

“This moment
my mind is bereft of poetry, yet
I want to write
nothing but a poem.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Something sinister in the tone
Told me my secret must be known:
Word I was in the house alone
Somehow must have gotten abroad,
Word I was in my life alone,
Word I had no one left but God.”
― Robert Frost

“But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Life will cover you in the comfort of normality in the anaesthesia of time.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“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.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“Nowhere to go to tea.
Only gin here
and no god at any gate
and no goodness.”
― Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

“His sudden decision not to see her any more was utterly incomprehensible to the girl, it was a death sentence from a hidden authority for an unknown crime. Nothing had changed, and then there was suddenly this.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“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.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“A story is a wondrous invention.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“Loneliness is nothing to be scared of. When you choose loneliness,
you become your own strength, your own master, your sole best
friend. You neither have anything to lose nor does anyone have to
expect anything from you. Loneliness is equivalent to independence
and total freedom. Nonetheless, loneliness is not something you can
embrace for life”
― Dhishna, Bereft