I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it,… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami 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
“Water in the Desert”: “No desolation is so total that it cannot contain somewhere, concealed and singing, a drop of life.” — Elizabeth Barrette Copy Share Image
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Nothing Earth ever spawned had the unutterable sublimation of devastating wrath that thing let loose in its face when it looked around… — John Campbell 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
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Strolling down a white-graveled walk to the cliff above the ocean, he let his eyes rove aimlessly over the expanse of sea… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction,… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.” — John Fante 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
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
“...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“No one can depict desolation who hasn't inhabited desolation and observed it very closely. Things condemned have a terrible beauty.” — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“Everything’ll be all right, desolation is desolation everywhere and desolation is all we got and desolation aint so bad” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment. — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the demons in the outer… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
