Desolate Quotes

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As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place… — Giuliana Tedeschi Brunelli
I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. God, how the trail lures me. You… — Everett Ruess
I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. — Everett Ruess
Go home and say to yourself, â€˜I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times.… — Elizabeth Prentiss
The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. — Wallace Stevens
Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like,… — Anton Oliver
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of… — Bram Stoker
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,… — James Salter
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous… — Simone Weil
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes… — Giovanni Boccaccio
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of… — Mao Zedong
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only… — Henry David Thoreau
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire into their circumstances… — Howard Stern
When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them… — Lee Greenwood
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. — Robert W. Service
I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the desert pastures. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing… — Jeremiah
Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest,… — Vigen Guroian
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. — Philip James Bailey
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities… — Harold S. Kushner

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