All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
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
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he… — William Butler Yeats 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
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“I took them all away, and if ever there was a time I needed distraction, this was it. In complete desolation, I… — Markus Zusak 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
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge 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
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
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“So we went to the Zoo; & I daresay I could write something interesting about that--a pale stone desert given over to… — Virginia Woolf 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
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be… — William Shakespeare 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
