The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
“...what is the meaning of La Belle Dame Sans Merci? - have you never been enthralled? enchantment that is unrequited desolates the… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
“The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall… — Suki Michelle Copy Share Image
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace,… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Japhy,' I said out loud, 'I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him. — Margaret of Cortona Copy Share Image
