“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
“It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself.” — Generation Loss Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall… — Suki Michelle Copy Share Image
“The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. — El Greco Copy Share Image
“Toward dawn we shared with you your hour of desolation, the huge lingering passion of your unearthly out cry, as you swung… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“So we went to the Zoo; & I daresay I could write something interesting about that--a pale stone desert given over to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him. — Margaret of Cortona Copy Share Image
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
“(This town) doesn't look like anything; it isn't anything. Its five tin-roofed huts cling to the skinny tracks of the Uganda Railway… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
