Desolation Quotes

114 quotes by 97 authors

The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row. — Bob Dylan
Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love. — Patti Smith
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American… — James Howard Kunstler
There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of MercyÂ´s campaign among the… — Mark Twain
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair… — David Gemmell
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him. — Margaret of Cortona
My desolation does begin to make A better life. — William Shakespeare
Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation. — John Fowles
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me… — Max Ehrmann
A grateful loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. — Lyndon B. Johnson
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the… — Arthur Erickson
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. — Mark Hoppus
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different… — James Otis
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the… — William Tecumseh Sherman
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n… — Francis Scott Key
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. — Aldous Huxley

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