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At first encounter the Karoo may seem arid, desolate and unforgiving, but to those who know it, it is a land of secret beauty and infinite variety. — Eve Palmer

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

He broke off and began to walk u and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death. — Gena Showalter

Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock. — Francine Rivers

People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe, — Anneli Rufus

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. — George Eliot

Everything that happens to the poor, the meek, the desolate, the mourners, the despised, happens to Christ. — Thomas Merton

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is. — Everett Ruess

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction. — Alastair Bruce

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate ... — Washington Irving

Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings. — Richard Jefferies

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. — Pat Conroy

I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery. — Adelbert Von Chamisso

Wisdom is found on the desolate hillside ... where none comes to feed, and the stony bank where the rabbit scratches a hole in vain. — Richard Adams

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate. — Shane Koyczan

The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. — Anna Akhmatova

Ashes are all around the desolate ground. What beauty could behold the darkness of a soul? -Keeley — Lora Ann

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores — John Keats

Isn't the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment's desolate attic? — Julian Barnes

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion. — John Steinbeck

She holds on to life as resiliently as the rose that grows out of the cold, desolate soil of a graveyard. A graveyard rose! — Ginny Clyde

Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ... — John Geddes

Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand. — Sabaa Tahir

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate. — Ouida

By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters. — Rebecca Makkai

It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself. — Elizabeth Hand

Desolate' was the most perfectly beautiful word for how she felt. Sometimes — Liane Moriarty

My heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow ... — John Geddes

Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. — Charles Caleb Colton

Only those who have been wanderers long desolate can know the power there was in the latter appeal [Christianity]. — Lew Wallace

THERE WAS NOWHERE ON EARTH more desolate than a Gristedes on New Year's Eve. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and left desolate. — Elizabeth Gaskell

It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me. — David Joy

Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. — Sappho

This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness — John Geddes

She had stayed because, however lonely she was with Harold, the world without him would be even more desolate. — Rachel Joyce

A platform without the Holy Spirit is like land without a spring. If we gain our Promise Land without Living Water, it will become desolate. — Alisa Hope Wagner

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky! — Alison Croggon

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them
God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. — Philip James Bailey

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. — Wallace Stevens

You know the way of the wind in the night - the desolate alleys my soul takes — John Geddes

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I'm a winter girl. I like coming out when things are desolate and everybody's ready to slit their wrists. — Tori Amos

Will and Nico sat shoulder to shoulder, bantering good-naturedly. They were so cute together it made me feel desolate. It — Rick Riordan

As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Go to hell," he said, but there was a desolate fear in his eyes and I couldn't look away.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated. — Melina Marchetta

It begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places ... — John Geddes

Smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances. — Terry Pratchett

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy. — William Blake

Loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars ... — John Geddes

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. — Lord Byron

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Even a poisoned, desolate childhood can be missed. — Julianna Baggott

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate. — Robert W. Service

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion. — Ernest Dowson

When she stamped her foot, it made a strange thud on the desolate beach. Like a heartbeat. — David Adams Richards

(The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.") — Elizabeth Kolbert

Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun. This — Elizabeth Gilbert

Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. — Anonymous

What people loathe the most is to be orphaned, desolate, unworthy. But this is what princes and kings call themselves. — Laozi

Go to your rest rejoicing, for you are not a desolate wanderer but a beloved child, watched over, cared for, supplied, and defended by your Lord. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Tobacco and drink deaden the pangs of hunger, and make one forget the miserable home, the desolate future. They — Elizabeth Gaskell

Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses ... lie abandoned by you ... — John Geddes

Immerse yourself in the mesmerising patchwork of flatland invaded by water, desolate roads of industrial obsolescence, and a dark history — Ben Handicott

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse. — Michael Chabon

He is being dragged into his own desolate abyss, and he know if she stays, he is going to pull her in, too. — Ella Frank

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,
Is such my future fate?
The morn was dreary, must the eve
Be also desolate? — Charlotte Bronte

If you live your life worried about the what-ifs, you're going to live a very desolate life. — Katherine Bogle

It was a crypt where music played to masses of the dead, and McJagger was their desolate pharaoh, a walking mummified king. I remembered it well. — Red Tash

Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter. — Giorgos Seferis