Desolation Quotes
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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
— John Fowles
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
— Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It surged up out of the water and stood for an instant upright upon that surging and heaving desolation like Christ.
— William Faulkner
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
— Milan Kundera
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.
— Susanna Kaysen
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
— Will Durant
My desolation does begin to make a better life.
— William Shakespeare
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
— Kristin Armstrong
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
— Mark Hoppus
In the desert, the only god is a well.
— Vera Nazarian
I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable desolation of the soul.
— Hjalmar Soderberg
In the cool weak light the nightflames all had died, and the silent streets echoed death and desolation. Worlorn's day. Yet it was twilight.
— George R R Martin
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life ...
— Joseph Conrad
No one can depict desolation who hasn't inhabited desolation and observed it very closely. Things condemned have a terrible beauty.
— Tove Jansson
Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.
— Emil Cioran
I knew I had been lonely, Mem, yet I had no understanding of my desolation until my skin was finally touched.
— Peter Carey
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.
— Rosamunde Pilcher
Everyone is making love or else expecting rain
— Bob Dylan
The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!
— Wilkie Collins
Waking up breaks my heart.Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in ... does me in. — Casey Renee Kiser
The explanation was plain; this desolation out here called forth all that was evil in human nature.
— O.E. Rolvaag
She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell - even the stars didn't stand a chance.
— Katherine McIntyre
The smoke drifts toward us across that vast desert of desolation with the rising of the wind.
— J.M Shorney
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
— Francis Beaumont
There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
— James Baldwin
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
— Cormac McCarthy
A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
— Emily Bronte
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It's the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" "blue
— Gayle Forman
The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Would a man nourished by beauty look like this? You have nothing but desolation and desperation here, you say? I bring you more of the same!
— Kurt Vonnegut
They make a desolation and call it peace.
— Agha Shahid Ali
A blend of desolation and outrage. Or longing and fury. She wanted him back, she never wanted to see him again.
— Ian McEwan
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
For where thou art, there is the world itself,With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation. — William Shakespeare
(This place) presumed to be a town then, but was hardly more than a word under a tin roof.
— Beryl Markham
I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
— John Keats
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
— Robert A. Heinlein
My friends are right:there is beauty
in desolation. — Kelsey Sutton
To weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.
— Margaret Campbell Barnes
The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.
— Bob Dylan
Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.
— Jack Kerouac
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
— Margaret Of Cortona
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
— Baruch Spinoza
I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?
— Aishah Madadiy
Who shall contend with time,unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? — Henry Kirke White
Magnificent, magnificent desolation.
— Johan Harstad
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
— John Of The Cross
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
— Joyce Cary
Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
— Laini Taylor
Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.
— M.F. Moonzajer
After desolation, grief brings back our humanity
— Mason Cooley
