Desolation empties me out, bones and muscles sucked away.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

— Charles Spurgeon

Hurry always empties a soul.

— Ann Voskamp

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles , it empties today of its strength.

— Anonymous

'Worrying does not empty tomorrow of it's troubles...it empties today of it's strength.

— Anonymous

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

— Benjamin Franklin

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the…

— Alexander Herzen

“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might…

— Shusaku Endo

“Then think of fire, It’s laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a house almost…

— Larry Levis

They create a desolation and call it peace.

— Calgacus

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases.…

— Khushwant Singh

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only,…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert…

— Charles Robert Maturin

“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,…

— Craig Davidson