Quotes About Desolation

O resto é a vida que nos deixa, a chama que morre no nosso olhar, a púrpura gasta antes de a vestirmos, a lua que vela o nosso abandono, as estrelas que estendem o seu silêncio sobre a nossa hora de desengano. Assídua a mágoa estéril e amiga que nos aperta o peito com amor. (Meu destino é a decadência)

His voice was dull and tremulous, the voice of one who hopes for nothing, because all hope is vain.

A vida pode ser sentida como uma náusea no estômago, a existência da própria alma como um incômodo dos músculos. A desolação do espírito, quando agudamente sentida, faz marés, de longe, no corpo, e dói por delegação.

I read as one who's passing through. And it's in classical writers, in the calm-spirited, in those who if they suffer don't mention it, that I feel like a holy transient, an anointed pilgrim, a contemplator for no reason of a world with no purpose, Prince of the Great Exile, who as he was leaving gave the last beggar the ultimate alms of his desolation.

We are hollow inside and out, pariahs of anticipation and promise.

The beauty of ruins? That they're no longer good for anything.

Desceu sobre nós a mais profunda e a mais mortal das secas dos séculos - a do conhecimento íntimo da vacuidade de todos os esforços e da vaidade de todos os propósitos.

En mi cielo interior no ha habido nunca una misera estrella.

I'm sad, but not with a definite sadness, nor even with an indefinite sadness. I'm sad down there, on the street littered with packing crates.

I'll die as I've lived, amid all the junk on the outskirts, sold by weight among the postscripts of the broken.

And all that remains is me, a poor abandoned child, whom no Love wanted as an adopted son, and no Friendship chose as a playmate.

The great anguishes of the soul always come upon us like cosmic cataclysms. When they do, the sun errs from its course and the stars are troubled. A day will come to every feeling soul when Fate stages an apocalypse of anguish, an upturning of all known heavens and universes over the soul's desolation.

There is something of my own disquiet in the steady drip and patter by which the day vainly empties out its sadness upon the earth.

If you ever find yourself on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you look around in every direction and don't see anything. That's a terrifying experience.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

The guy's alone and apart - that's the message.' 'Then perhaps it's what we all feel at times - the hell of alienation' 'Maybe, or what some of us see as the inevitable fall from grace,

That cold, dead look with something behind it like waiting

Cuánta desolación. La claridad azul remachaba en el alma la monotonía de toda nuestra vida, cavilaba hedionda, taciturna.

The University of Santa Teresa was like a cemetery that suddenly begins to think, in vain. It also was like an empty dance club.

Silence glimmers in the empty hallways, on the radios no one listens to anymore.

The night was dark as pitch or coal. Stupid expressions, thought Pereda. European nights might be pitch-dark or coal-black, but not American nights, which are dark like a void, where there's nothing to hold on to, no shelter from the elements, just empty, storm-whipped space, above and below.

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.

Ivanov's breath smelled of vodka and sewers, sour and heavy, like something rotting, reminiscent of empty houses near swamps, nightfall at four in the afternoon, vapors rising from the sickly grass and fogging the dark windows. A horror film, thought Ansky. Where everything has come to a halt, and it comes to a halt because it knows it's lost.

Toda la casa, durante mis incursiones en busca de la caja fuerte, parecía viva. Viva en la dejadez, viva en el abandono. Pero viva.