For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What is more refreshing than salads when your appetite seems to have deserted you, or even after a capacious dinner — the… — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
“The main roadway is nearly deserted and there’s not a single person in front of the dimly lit library. As I follow… — Emma Chase 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
It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the… — William James Copy Share Image
“Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Amy was alone, deserted by her ‘friends’ now that she wasn’t doing drugs. She was lonely and wanted to go out, but… — Mitch Winehouse Copy Share Image
At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. — Paul H. Dunn Copy Share Image
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. — Gyorgy Ligeti Copy Share Image
A mother is the one who is still there when everyone else has deserted you — Nateman Copy Share Image
It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted. — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
“forsaken adjective for·sake·n \, fawr-sey-kuh n\ Abandoned or deserted. ” — Sloane Kennedy Copy Share Image
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my… — Gracie Gold Copy Share Image
We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others… — Poul Henningsen Copy Share Image
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and… — Charles Lever Copy Share Image
“In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“ENTER THIS DESERTED HOUSE But please walk softly as you do. Frogs dwell here and crickets too. Ain't no ceiling, only blue… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
