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Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. — H.P. Lovecraft

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there. — Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Your grace's words have been like manure spread on the barren ground of my dry and uncultivated mind. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

A soldier picked up the still-living girl and carried her to the barren fireplace. — James Rollins

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. — C.S. Lewis

People will die," he echoed, thinking of Ilsa. Ilsa in her room, surrounded by stars. Ilsa in the Barren, surrounded by ghosts. — Victoria Schwab

Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her. — Samuel Johnson

It seemed as if at least a moment some spring had burst forth in his barren soul. — Vaino Linna

Time evaporate, money is always needed, comforts found where they were not expected and excitement dug up in barren ground. — Susan Sontag

Without the plankton the sea would be a barren wilderness — Richard R. Kirby

a genius of means, barren of ends — Perry Anderson

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain. — Peggy Noonan

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden — Peter McWilliams

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. — Langston Hughes

The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land. — Mitch Leigh

I resolved to break the barren soil of my fruitless brain. — Elizabeth Grymeston

You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost! — Paul Washer

The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
Cruelly, being barren.
Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her. — Sylvia Plath

Love the broken.
Lift the fallen.
Care for the barren. — Debasish Mridha

It takes a heart of a barren landscape, the place where silence makes its home. — S.L. Northey

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. — Twyla Tharp

They were too young then to know what they would ultimately need from a barren and heart-sore life ... — Frank O'Hara

Emptiness appears barren
yet is infinite fullness — Lao-Tzu

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture. — Quintilian

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water. — Steven J. Lawson

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish. — Philip Pullman

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme?
Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,
By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed? — George Crabbe

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. — Patricia A. McKillip

I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places. — Saleem Haddad

The third wed the Lord of the Paps, but proved barren. — George R R Martin

Go to the place called barren,
Stand in the place called empty.
And you will find God there. — Joan Sauro

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse. — Henry Ward Beecher

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government. — Tony Blair

Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

There's an extremely fine line between "boldly transgressive" and spiritually barren, — Mark Steyn

... and the rest of his life lay in front of him like a barren, meaningless postscript. — Lev Grossman

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. — William Dampier

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. — Marguerite Duras

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. — Arthur Helps

She made the ground a canvas and transformed the dusty barren land into a beautiful painting ever — Manoj Kumar Duppala

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence. — Ken Danby

But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ... — Hilda Doolittle

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative. — Melvin Calvin

After grief, all that remains is barren. — Pierre Lemaitre

You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall yourselves. - Caleb — Geraldine Brooks

The thing about being barren is that you're not allowed to get away from it. — Paula Hawkins

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism. — Louis Pasteur

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. — Augustus William Hare

Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder. — Edward Dawson

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams. — Natalie Babbitt

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

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward. — Peter Greenaway

Some look at the hills from far away and see only the barren lands; some travel amongst the hills and find the most beautiful valleys! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? — Erica Jong

A mind is not a barren field, but it is an ever-growing and ever blooming garden of love. — Debasish Mridha

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

When you have stripped yourself bare like the trees in the fall season you will be standing totally barren with nothing to hide — GS. Subbu

More than anything, she wanted to be someplace warm and safe
but duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit. — Jim Butcher

At the cry of a new born salt is being sprinkle at the wound of a barren woman — Peter Adejimi

Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran

I let the barren-void melody of his voice lilt its way through the inattentive chambers of my brain. — John Darnielle

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. — Homer

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want. — Wilfred Owen

The mind is not a barren field; it is a field where dreams grow with love and care. — Debasish Mridha

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. — William Shakespeare

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. — Thomas Traherne

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. — J.G. Farrell

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches. — Albert Schweitzer

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There is no such thing as 'one sided love' in nature. Its only that two vectors are separated by barren stretches of time, space and lives. — Kartikey Singh

Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt. — Peter Dickinson

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface. — Robert Falcon Scott

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis. — Henri Murger

Without love, life is a barren field. — Debasish Mridha

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren. — Lorde

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide. — Alexander Smith

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. — Samuel Daniel

For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that one's life is barren as the dusty yards of one's town — Eugenia Collier

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile. — Frank H. T. Rhodes

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives. — Idries Shah

This book is written in
a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance. — Phindiwe Nkosi

Here, in the barren hell of Zus, there was nothing but the wind, and the wind talked. — Lynn Kelling

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. — Robert E. Howard

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J.C. Ryle

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience. — Olaf Stapledon

Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or — John Henry Newman

Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else. — Henry Ward Beecher

A society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Without love life will be barren field. — Debasish Mridha

That profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. — Marcel Proust

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A mind without imaginations is a barren field. — Debasish Mridha