“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“No one can depict desolation who hasn't inhabited desolation and observed it very closely. Things condemned have a terrible beauty.” — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“Everything’ll be all right, desolation is desolation everywhere and desolation is all we got and desolation aint so bad” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment. — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which… — Sarah Doudney Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction,… — Albert Lutuli Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
That the language of the poetry of Jamaican music is rastafarian or biblical language cannot simply be put down to the colonizer… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa 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
“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the demons in the outer… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood… — Stephanie Barron Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“When in the throes of our desolation, it is difficult to hope. But when it is time, we walk the corridors of… — Gwendolyn M. Plano Copy Share Image
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine,… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
I also find the desert a wonderful metaphor for desolation and yet the exact counterpart of the ocean with its hidden depths.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
