Quotes About Aridity

Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let manna fall from the heavens so that the holy children of Israel might eat, will not let the equally holy children of Niggeratti Manor die from the want of a little gin. Children, let us pray.

Pagan? Ah,that is a joyous word for the aridity of Godless modern man!

They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert. Everything

Uncertainty, aridity, peace-all things will resolve themselves into these and pass away.

For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.

nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...

La geografia dell'aridità è un prisma da cui emergono i più insoliti e complessi accostamenti di colore. I sederti hanno questo in comune, i colori. E sono loro a farci sentire a casa in luoghi simili, a darci l'impressione che il mondo non sia poi così grande.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

I'm a totally desert person.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity, whensoever possible, with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters.

Il suo dovere lo compiva sempre fedelmente; ma il dovere è talvolta un arido obbligo, ed egli era favorevole a irrigarne l'aridità, ogniqualvolta possibile, con una fertilizzante decozione di vigorose acque.

As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.

He sadly resumes his path toward a desert that he knows is similar to the one he just crossed, escorted by the pale phantom they call Reason, who lights up the aridity of his path with a weak lantern, and who, when the thirst of passion comes back from time to time, quenches it with the poison of ennui.

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

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

The scholastic method encouraged subtlety, intellectual agility, a sharpening of scholarly wits. It provoked a rage for philosophy, which occupied the schools at the expense of humanistic and scientific studies. Compromising by nature, it did not lead to the discovery of great final truths. It led, rather, to aridity, spiritual casuistry, and, with its ever more fine-spun distinctions, to absurdity.