Desolation Quotes
Desolation Quote of the day
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
All consolation that does not come from God is but desolation; when the soul has learned to receive no comfort but in God only, it has passed beyond the reach of desolation.
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.
If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
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
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.
Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.
Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.