Desolate Quotes

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No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his… — Bayard Taylor
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. — Charles Caleb Colton
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and… — Marisha Pessl
MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,… — Conrad Aiken
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never… — John Steinbeck
Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky! — Alison Croggon
It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores — John Keats
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred… — Edgar Allan Poe
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like… — Sylvia Plath
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have itâ€™s… — Jan Neruda
Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their… — Mikhail Lermontov
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the… — Haruki Murakami
You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even… — Gena Showalter
And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate... — Washington Irving

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