There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil,… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
“When in the throes of our desolation, it is difficult to hope. But when it is time, we walk the corridors of… — Gwendolyn M. Plano Copy Share Image
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with… — Marjorie Pizer Copy Share Image
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin 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
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I would rather hide in desolation and poverty, whether it be in the Baseborn Quarters or the Tenantless, than be the cause… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and… — Bible Copy Share Image
