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
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan 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
“The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries… — Jeff VanderMeer 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
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen 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
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
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because… — Nadine Gordimer 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
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“After facing the relentless pandemic showdowns, many long for the glow of a new dawn and crave bright life stories with liberating… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into… — Margaret Mitchell 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
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
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
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
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
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
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or… — Honore de Balzac 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
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
“...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
“...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
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light. — Anonymous 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
