Quotes About Barren

For Nature, which has peopled the land with rational souls, may not have left the sea altogether barren of them

because there's something joyless and deadening in the air, as if what this room really holds is the decaying miscarried fetus of the human future. Anyone who lingers here will sicken and die, just as if they were stranded in the pyramid on a dead world where once the photo-reconnaissance Concordes flew.

The moon is very rugged.

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

a desert more vast than the continental United States

Personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice, is more than a barren life, it's a trivial one.

his eyes took in the barren slopes and the scattered boulders and the lonley gray road windingits way into the fading hills,and i could feel him thinking to himself this is no place to die

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

the islands remained uninhabited and unpeopled, visited only by sailors under duress.

I am filled with the thirst of the desert.

The bad part is you freeze your balls off, but since you're not allowed to breed anyway, I don't suppose that matters.

Gentler than the Lanisters is dryer than the sea.

The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.

The third wed the Lord of the Paps, but proved barren.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

Here is no water but only rock.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.