Desolate Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

— Leigh Hunt

On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is…

— Ferdinand von Mueller

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of…

— Jack London

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues…

— Edgar Allan Poe

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

— Ellen Glasgow

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they…

— Louis Sullivan

Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house;…

— Clifford D. Simak

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature…

— H. G. Wells

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

— Markus Zusak

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our…

— William Dean Howells

The truly happiest, sweetest, tenderest homes are not those where there has been no sorrow, but those which have been overshadowed with grief, and…

— J.R. Miller