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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves themGod 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
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
Smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances.
— Terry Pratchett
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
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
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
Immerse yourself in the mesmerising patchwork of flatland invaded by water, desolate roads of industrial obsolescence, and a dark history
— Ben Handicott
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[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
