“Never being on the shortlist of people’s attention may arouse a sensation of desolation but may, all together, be an expectant challenge… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the gay world, some of the most enriching and incredibly life-affirming and shaping relationships, very often between younger boys and older… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself.” — Generation Loss Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose… — Margaret Campbell Barnes Copy Share Image
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. — El Greco Copy Share Image
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Toward dawn we shared with you your hour of desolation, the huge lingering passion of your unearthly out cry, as you swung… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil,… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Man may be doomed to loss, sorrow, and desolation, but if he tries his strength and will, however briefly, upon the indifferent… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with… — Marjorie Pizer Copy Share Image
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's something about night and day, and life and death, but animals are also mentioned a lot of times in the bible,… — Michal Rovner Copy Share Image
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I truly believe that to stay home, to learn the names of things, to realize who we live among . . .… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
“Through the gate in the mountain comes the buran, the wind that destroys. Shepherds and the flocks of shepherds die at the… — Harold Lamb Copy Share Image
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.” — John Fante Copy Share Image
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
