Desolation Quotes

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It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolationâ€”of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the… — Vincent Van Gogh
I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that… — W G Sebald
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? Itâ€™s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" â€œblue — Gayle Forman
They're selling postcards of the hanging They're painting the passports brown The beauty parlor is filled with sailors The circus is in town Here comes… — Bob Dylan
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. — Haruki Murakami
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked… — Charles Dickens
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of loveâ€”but sometimes it was so hard to love.… — Yann Martel
I cling unto the burning Ã†thyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I… — Aleister Crowley
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this?… — Susanna Kaysen
But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping… — Margaret Mitchell
Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels. — Laini Taylor
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful… — Joseph Conrad
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen
Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross — Maya Angelou
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity… — Mark Twain
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation. — Kristin Armstrong
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and… — Jules Verne

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