These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its…

THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart…

— William Carlos Williams

“When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is generally something wrong with her sexual nature. Barrenness itself conduces to a certain virility of taste;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

— Ellen G. White

“Truly barren is a secular education. It is always in labor, but never gives birth.”

— Gregory of Nyssa

“Give me, if you will, prayers; Or let me know dryness, An abudance of devotion, Or if not, then barrenness. In you alone, Sovereign…

— Teresa of Ávila

When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce…

— Herman Melville

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

— Thomas Carlyle

“I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my…

— Natalie Brenner

There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there…

— Aristotle

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

— Louis Pasteur

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

— Anonymous

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman”

— peter adejimi

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

— George Carey