Barren Quotes

190 Barren quotes by 164 unique authors

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for… — Olaf Stapledon
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. — Olaf Stapledon
This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might… — Beverly Lewis
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine… — William Shakespeare
Long ago Mars was an oasis of running water.Today the Martiansurfaceis a sterile,barren desert. Here on Earth, who knows what climactic knobs we unwittingly turn,which… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a… — Richard Dawkins
Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you… — Anne Lamott
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. — Samuel Johnson
Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what… — Helen Keller
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley
The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic day on the… — Chip Conley
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that achievement; for hate… — James Stephens
The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of… — Tristram Stuart
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. — Mitch Leigh
The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-giving warmth and light. Without the sun, there… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide… — Ted Danson
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. — Melvin Calvin
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. — Langston Hughes
Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours...never doubt the excellence and permanence… — Helen Keller
It seems to me a barren thing this conservatism - an unhappy cross breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing. — Benjamin Disraeli

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