Barren Quote by J.R. Ward

I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing

— J.R. Ward

“Every night I went into Hannah's room and sat with her stuff. The thing I couldn't get was how her clothes and her books…

— J.R. Ward

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

— Robert E. Howard

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

— Marguerite Duras

“In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty…

— Elissa Stein and Susan Kim

“In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.”

— Diane Setterfield

Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness…

— Toni Morrison

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;…

— David Wroblewski

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

— Joseph Addison

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

— Philip Massinger

I stayed in L.A. long enough to get on my feet, and then I moved back to New York. The reason I moved here…

— Iggy Pop

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.”

— Phindiwe Nkosi