“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.” — Emil Cioran 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
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
“...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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees… — Adolf Hitler 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 am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace,… — Francis Scott Key Copy Share Image
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet… — Pope Francis 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
“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
“(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.” — Beryl Markham 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? — Henry Kirke White 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
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
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith 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
“Nothing Earth ever spawned had the unutterable sublimation of devastating wrath that thing let loose in its face when it looked around… — John Campbell Copy Share Image
