All 3 Uses of
forlorn
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.†
p. 123.1 *
- It is a great brotherhood, which adds something of the good-fellowship of the folk-song, of the feeling of solidarity of convicts, and of the desperate loyalty to one another of men condemned to death, to a condition of life arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlornness of death—seeking in a wholly unpathetic way a fleeting enjoyment of the hours as they come.†
p. 272.7
- How forlorn I am already, though he still sits here beside me.†
p. 289.5
Definition:
sad, hopeless, pitiful and/or abandoned