Quotes About Desolation

In the darkness behind their shut lids they all saw the same thing: no color at all, only loss like a hole torn in the world.

Without his books, his room felt like a body with its heart cut out. Now his body felt like a body with its hearts cut out.

This was not the frustration one feels at waking from a sweet dream. It was the desolation of having found the place that fits , the one true place, and experiencing the first heady sigh of rightness before being torn away and cast back into random, lonely scatter. The place was each other, and the irony was sharp, since they couldn't be in the same place, and had come no closer to each other in physical reality.

Hospital: warehouse of the used and the superfluous, the half-here and the half-there.

You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Without him, [Nate] she was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into bottomless darkness...

this town has no soul. and nobody yields to your love. nobody yields, period.

down. She felt weak and slightly sick. But there wasn't a stick of furniture of any kind in the place. Hastily

Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.

When you've lost your girl, it doesn't much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn't, and that's the front and back of it.

Omaha is no place for anybody.

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered ever went in there.

Daar, in dat meubelloze, ondanks de gezinsgrootte lege kamertje, temidden van de stapel naar verschaalde terpentijn riekende kerstbomen, ervoer ik voor het eerst in volle hevigheid de verlatenheid, die de onmiddellijke nabijheid van een in stomme aanbidding vereerd maar voor altijd onbereikbaar wezen inhoudt.

Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they are married. How can marriage provide security? In any case a husband is a possession which can be lost or stolen and the abandoned wife of thirty odd with a couple of children is far more desolate and insecure in her responsibility than an unmarried woman with or without children ever could be.

My thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet to me in this sea.

The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.

Amaro e noia la vita, altro mai nulla; e fango è il mondo.

The world had gone too quiet and the possibility that she and Lou were the only ones left alive tickled at her brain like the tiny, scuttling legs of a black spider.

Las ciudades desiertas o desenterradas son incomparablemente más bellas que las vivas.

Sentirse completamente solo en el mundo, abandonado de repente por todos, abatido por el peso de una vergüenza desconocida o de alguna condena silenciosa es algo más pavoroso y misterioso que la muerte.

On Top Of The World Or In The Depths Of Despair.

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.

Lonely he had lived, so far as his kind was concerned, and lonely he would continue to live.