Desolation Quotes

114 quotes by 97 authors

Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en… — William Tecumseh Sherman
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying… — Masanobu Fukuoka
A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every… — John Millington Synge
Infidelity is one of those coinages,-a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks… — Thomas Chalmers
Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling… — Hermann Hesse
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes… — Wilfred Burchett
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
They make a desolation and call it peace. — Agha Shahid Ali
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from… — Mark Twain
We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It… — Stephen Fry
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light. — John of the Cross
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the… — Viktor E. Frankl
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing… — Alexander Herzen
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for… — Charles Edward Montague
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. — Milan Kundera
There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother? — Joyce Cary
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed… — George V

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