Barren Quote by Väinö Linna

“I wasn't there yet, I wasn't finding joy and gladness in my barrenness, but I believed I would. I believed He would make my…

— Natalie Brenner

“Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force,…

— Jules Verne

“Louisa, by whom she found herself walking, burst forth into raptures”

— Jane Austen

[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Beware the build-up of an inward wound, For it will at last burst forth; Avoid, while you can, distress to one heart, For a…

— Saadi

“He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams…

— Stephen King

Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness…

— Toni Morrison

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;…

— David Wroblewski

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

— Joseph Addison

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

— Philip Massinger