Quotes About Wasteland

The Flamingo, as Siegel named his hotel, was a castle in the wasteland with a lot of tamed water nearby. And

There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

He could see the Milky Way running parallel with the street, a celestial track of shining pebbles forging through the wasteland of the night.

Gaunt men with sunken eyes squatted amidst sand and stones, shitting out their lives in stinking streams of brown and red.

We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.

A further difficulty is the apparent tendency of the Almighty to reveal himself only to unlettered and quasi-historical individuals, in regions of Middle Eastern wasteland that were long the home of idol worship and superstition, and in many instances already littered with existing prophecies.

Desert — a piece of Earth that God forgot to water.

Lost in the wasteland, Ashbery was found by a light flickering up from between the fractured paving stones. Its beams were bitterly cold, and sticky in a way light had no right to be, adhering to his sleeve and hand before fading away. Intrigued, he tracked its source from one eruption to another, each point brighter than the one before.

The Aleph moment would be followed, on a timescale of seconds, by the degeneration of physics into pure mathematics. Just as the Big Bang implied pre-space before it – an infinitely symmetric roiling abstraction where nothing really existed or happened – the Aleph moment would bring on the informational mirror image, another infinite wasteland without time or space.

It's better to have the taxpayer pay for the losses than have the United States of America become an economic wasteland. If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.

Nothing moved in that purgatorial waste save carnivorous birds. By

There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

I don't know a single conservative donor who is not fervently trying to improve urban schools or provide scholarships in order to liberate pupils from that educational wasteland.

Empty landfills are the pits

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I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.

Then again they were both here, far out at sea, tempest-tossed, together in a warm berth in the freezing wasteland of the ocean.

Neither sad nor gay is the desert—a boundless waste of sand under a burning waste of sky.

She joined the celebration, a wooden smile fixed to her face, but inside, she was a wasteland, everything burning to ash.

They rightly anticipate that if we don't reduce our stockpiles dramatically, and soon, that some megalomaniac will opt to bring about a nuclear Armageddon that will reduce the planet to a barren wasteland.