When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Think of it! A few more boats, a few more planks of wood nailed together in a particular way at a thrifty… — Lawrence Beesley Copy Share Image
“[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally… — Edwin Abbott Abbott Copy Share Image
I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I rouse Emily to our guests, as she finishes off our fifteenth snowman by setting the head atop its torso. She stands… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Even though I was chronologically 21, I was pretty immature and naive for my age, having grown up in a small, isolated… — Susan Schneider Copy Share Image
When you're spending that much time by yourself in your car looking at landscapes, it's desolate. Most of the other people around… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Standing on the Moon looking back at Earth - this lovely place you just came from - you see all the colours,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
“It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself.” — Generation Loss Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
“By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of… — Alastair Bruce Copy Share Image
“The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rationality and logic can find no truth to sustaining life in this desolate sense of being. The need to belong, but the… — Trent Thomas Copy Share Image
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil,… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single,… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the… — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
What a contrast between the stern and desolate poetry of Ossian, and that of Chaucer, and even of Shakespeare and Milton, much… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost memories? Then are we not each… — Nathan Reese Maher Copy Share Image
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