Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself.” — Generation Loss Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose… — Margaret Campbell Barnes Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant 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 this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
“I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I… — Markus Zusak 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
“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace,… — Francis Scott Key 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
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan 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
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
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza 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
“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods,… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.” — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
