Beauty Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought,…

— Craig Davidson

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of…

— Adrienne Rich

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

— Maya Angelou

“Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the demons in the outer dark Look…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled…

— Peter Cundall

“I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases.…

— Khushwant Singh

All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only,…

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert…

— Charles Robert Maturin

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the…

— Alexander Herzen

There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation…

— Honore de Balzac

They create a desolation and call it peace.

— Calgacus