Desolation Quote by John Fowles Download Open image “Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desolation Inspirational Love Sight Sleep Whole
Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it. — Paul Coffey Copy Share Image
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Never lose sight to those you hold near, because one day you might lose everything you once saw clear. — Michael Kilby Copy Share Image
Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead. — Thomas Haden Church Copy Share Image
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
