“Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.”
“There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it.”
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.”
“It is impossible to be both selfish and happy”
“For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.”