Desolation Quote by John Geddes

“did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne…

— Matthew Lewis

“She was not happy--she never had been. Whence came this insufficiency in life--this instantaneous turning to decay of everything on which she leaned? But…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Still, when your truthful eyes, your keen, attentive stare, endow the vacuous slut with royalty, when you match her soul to her shimmering hair,…

— Lisel Mueller

“I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl — I read that Foreign Lady** — The Dark — felt beautiful — And…

— Emily Dickinson

“I felt no honor and no beauty, even though I was a queen. There were the frivolities, the attendant charms and the decorations of…

— Sakoon Singh

“In discourse more sweet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and…

— John Milton

“I nourished my soul by taking care of her bodily home, the two became one and in unity we savored the beauty of each…

— Danielle Luz Matias

“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense,…

— Irene Hunt

“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that illumination. Forsaking…

— Albert Camus

“Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.”

— Jack Vance