Quotes About Barrenness

The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

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

after the town of Tehuacán into the heights of the rocky past, not a person in sight, the summits of these nameless mountains looking scalded and bare and terrifying in their flinty emptiness.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.

By "developing" the planet, we have been reducing Earth to a new type of barrenness.

It was a long straight road through dry fields as far as a person could see. You'd think the sky didn't have any air in it, and the earth was made of paper. Rather than moving, we were just getting smaller and smaller.

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.

cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells

Whoa, Mother Hubbard. That's some empty cupboard.

But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.

But at that moment—the moment of realization that life as I'd been living it would have to end—I felt devastation unlike any I'd ever known. The barrenness was indescribable. The emptiness that opened up in me seemed to stretch on forever; I could see no end to it, could find no source of comfort in it, could not imagine any way out.

Sono come queste pietre afghane. Non ci cresce niente dentro di me

The situation worsened when they arrived at Cadiz, because there was nothing for them there.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words.

I pulled out the quilt I was making for my sister's baby. After years of barrenness, Ani was preparing for the birth of her first child in late summer. As fast as I sewed, I might get it done by the child's twelfth year.

Any joy that grows here is quickly choked by weeds. I am not some monster who destroys out of a twisted pleasure. I sow salt because the choice is between weeds and nothing.

it was simply the solar system's colder version of hell.

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Now Abramís wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.