#bereft

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 powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. ↗

— David Bowie

#awe #behind #believe #bereft #buddhist

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

#life

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

— Beth Henley

#acting class #bereft #class #high #high school

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

#left #live #long #once #them

I have never felt bereft of anything. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#bereft #felt #i #never

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

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves