Barren Quotes

190 Barren quotes by 164 unique authors

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. — Philip Pullman
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through… — David Wroblewski
On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book.… — Patrick Rothfuss
I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I… — David Ebershoff
Stercus Accidit. [barren happens] — Karen Chance
I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on… — Karen Kingsbury
An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. — Irving Stone
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day… — Susanna Clarke
She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,… — Khaled Hosseini
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. — Patricia A. McKillip
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned… — Walter Scott
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I… — Sylvia Plath
The plants that produce visions can function- for those of us who have inherited the New World Order of barren materialism, cut off from our… — Daniel Pinchbeck
He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he… — John Owen
What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things… — Waris Dirie
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat… — Jane Addams
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its… — Oscar Wilde
I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing — J R Ward
I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever… — Dan Wells
From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds; from the leaf-buds to snowy virginity of bloom…It was like a flute song forgotten in another existence and… — Zora Neale Hurston
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad… — Nick Hornby

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