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Quotes About Desolation

At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.
~ Mitch Albom
Our voices dissipated into the empty ocean night, and at that moment it was possible to believe we were the only people left on Earth.
~ Mitch Albom
A desert is a place without expectation.
~ Nadine Gordimer
I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)
~ Naomi Novik
I left the apartment without even bothering to close the door behind me. Once outside, I faced a world of buildings and faces that seemed strange and distant. I started to walk aimlessly, oblivious to the cold and the rain-filled wind that was starting to lash the town with the breath of a curse.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sabien que aquell dia una llum s'apagava al món i que, a partir d'ara, tots estarien més sols, més buits.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The scenery is colorless and depressing. It looks as though life in Hell is very harsh. And lonely. Very, very lonely.
~ Carlton Mellick III
The room was empty without him. No, the
~ Carolyn Brown
It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.
~ Carson McCullers
It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me
~ Carson McCullers
Frances wanted the whole world to die.
~ Carson McCullers
Todos los días eran iguales para ellos, porque estaban tan solos que nada les estorbaba
~ Carson McCullers
Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Eric shone like the moon; he was pale and commanding, and there was a large empty space around him. He was alone. He held out his hand to me, and I took it, to a flare of dismay from the twoeys.
~ Charlaine Harris
We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
~ Hanya Yanagihara
The empty rooms always had a terribly depressing effect upon my father when he considered, he said, that the person who dwelt in them had to fill them solely with his own fantasies, with fantastic objects, in order not to go out of his mind.
~ Thomas Bernhard
We don't have to be ashamed, but we are nothing, and we earn nothing but chaos.
~ Thomas Bernhard
But what between the poor men I won't have, and the rich men who won't have me, I stand as a pelican in the wilderness!
~ Thomas Hardy
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come within.
~ Thomas Hardy
Hate him she did not quite; but he was dust and ashes to her...
~ Thomas Hardy
It was still early, and though the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet. There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her sadder self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane.
~ Thomas Hardy
Her house looked cold from the foggy lea, And the square of each window a dull black blur Where showed no stir: Yes, her gloom within at the lack of me Seemed matching mine at the lack of her. The black squares grew to be squares of light As the eyeshade swathed the house and lawn, And viols gave tone; There was glee within. And I found that night The gloom of severance mine alone
~ Thomas Hardy
The pair were, in truth, but the ashes of their former fires. To the hot sorrow of the previous night had succeeded heaviness; it seemed as if nothing could kindle either of them to fervour of sensation any more.
~ Thomas Hardy
They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.
~ Thomas Hardy