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
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may… — Alice James Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes” — john j geddes 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
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
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen 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
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
“(This town) doesn't look like anything; it isn't anything. Its five tin-roofed huts cling to the skinny tracks of the Uganda Railway… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.” — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen 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 desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own… — Francis Thompson 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
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith 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
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
