Barrenness Quote by Natalie Brenner

“I used to believe I was merely words and I do not know whether I shall start hoping for something more. You planted that…

— Katherine Mansfield

“It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The…

— Wilkie Collins

“But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I’d been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any I’d ever…

— Marya Hornbacher

“The dirt and plants were my happy place, the one place where I belonged. When I worked with soil and flowers I was neither…

— Denise Grover Swank

“And occasionally I became very sad over that happiness, because I was well aware it couldn’t last. I wasn’t meant to exist in the…

— Hermann Hesse

“Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.”

— Martin Cosgrove

“I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Nothing came in reasonable measure, it seemed, not water or sunshine or sorrow. But joy, too, is immoderate sometimes, and that makes up for…

— Jetta Carleton

“I had done everything I knew how to do to draw as near to the heart of God as I could, only to find…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence,…

— Nick Hornby

“I stood staring to heaven and nothing came from there, no mercy or redemption. Whatever had come had come already and it was not…

— James Robertson

“One thing seemed to suggest that I might have some wisp of beauty to offer the world: the nature of my heart, which remained…

— Dean Koontz