Barren Quotes

190 Barren quotes by 164 unique authors

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden — Peter McWilliams
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have… — Henry David Thoreau
In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand.… — Isaac D'Israeli
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… — James Russell Lowell
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new… — Eric Hoffer
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier… — Abraham Kuyper
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. — Thomas Traherne
There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow;… — John Bowring
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. — Samuel Daniel
When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name… — William Shakespeare
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. — George Eliot
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. — Alexander Smith
Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. — Homer
You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels. — Philip Massinger
A man who has no love in him is as barren as a cloud with no moisture, a tree with no fruits or a cow… — Sathya Sai Baba
The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no… — Zeno of Elea
A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth. — Peace Pilgrim
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky.… — Rose Wilder Lane
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism,… — James Anthony Froude

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