Desolation Quotes

114 quotes by 97 authors

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco,… — Philip K. Dick
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The… — Alexander Pushkin
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again, their memories are what give them the need for other hands. And the desolation of lovers is the same:… — Galway Kinnell
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation. — James A. Baldwin
I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there… — Haruki Murakami
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a… — Toni Morrison
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at… — C.S. Lewis
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November,… — William Peter Blatty
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... — Joseph Conrad
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your… — Milan Kundera
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… — Virginia Woolf
It is a time when oneâ€™s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ...… — Elizabeth Goudge
You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into… — Peter S. Beagle
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment. — Rosamunde Pilcher
It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace… — Seamus Heaney
I was like a lost moonâ€•my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolationâ€•that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around… — Stephenie Meyer

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