There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh… — William Henry Hudson 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
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
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
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it,… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But if you just got your first car and you're feeling around for the seat lever and find "Desolation Angels" instead, the… — Tupelo Hassman Copy Share Image
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
“Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“Our ultimate goal is the preservation of all Roshar," Dalinar said softly. "We've seen the cost of division in our ranks. Because… — Brandon Sanderson 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
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
“It was not so much shame that I experienced as the feeling that the actual world was an unfamiliar organism utterly unlike… — Osamu Dazai 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
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
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
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in… — Joseph Conrad 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
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? — Henry Kirke White 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
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods,… — Craig Davidson 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
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human… — Evelyn Beatrice Hall Copy Share Image
“Water in the Desert”: “No desolation is so total that it cannot contain somewhere, concealed and singing, a drop of life.” — Elizabeth Barrette 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
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Being vulnerable to desolation also arises from being unable to picture a set of choices with which to change your lot in… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
