“The streets are empty. Wind skims the voids keeping neighbors apart, as if grazing the hollow of a cut reed, or say,… — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single,… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
“Then think of fire, It’s laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, The flames reaching through the second story of a… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Through the gate in the mountain comes the buran, the wind that destroys. Shepherds and the flocks of shepherds die at the… — Harold Lamb Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Never being on the shortlist of people’s attention may arouse a sensation of desolation but may, all together, be an expectant challenge… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“I would rather hide in desolation and poverty, whether it be in the Baseborn Quarters or the Tenantless, than be the cause… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and… — Bible Copy Share Image
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its… — John Greenleaf Whittier 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an… — Alexander Pushkin 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
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
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
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
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 expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.” quote by Buzz Aldrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ef/buzz-aldrin-954_achievement_i-expected-the-unexpected-and-went-on-th_304425.jpg)
