Quotes About Barren

When through the old oak forest I am gone, Let me not wander in a barren dream.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

We try to discover in things, endeared to us on that account, the spiritual glamour which we ourselves have cast upon them; we are disillusioned, and learn that they are in themselves barren and devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas; sometimes we mobilise all our spiritual forces in a glittering array so as to influence and subjugate other human beings who, as we very well know, are situated outside ourselves, where we can never reach them.

If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.

The [Gila River area is] so utterly desolate, desert, and Godforsaken, that Kit Carson says a wolf could not make his living upon it." | U.S. Representative THOMAS HART BENTON addressing the house of representatives, June 26, 1854

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

how I regretted ever having known this boy, and how severely I condemned the barren and inhuman curiosity of the men who in order to make scientific advancement had torn him away from a life, at least innocent and happy!

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

You cant get too much winter in the winter.

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using. Why so? More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, Hey ho.

Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division make barren our lives.

As I stand among the barren gulches in these days and look away at the slow-awakening hills of Montana, I hear the high, swelling, half tired, half-hopeful song of the world. As I listen I know that there are things, other than the Virtue and the Truth and the Love, that are not for me. There is beyond me, like these, the unbreaking, undying bond of human fellowship—a thing that is earth-old.

Travelling, sick My dreams roam On a withered moor.

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

The house made of ice in the middle of a desert! And that house is the house of lies!

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!

The one who reigns must die, At the hands of she born last, And the last will make the first, When the bastard twins are one, And blessed be the newborn King, For Charyn will be barren no more.

Though one praises all the gods, Birds will not come down to deserts.

That which is foolish is sometimes far stronger than that which is right, possessing an uncanny power to move men's hearts. And foolish ideas have always found easy purchase on small parts, hearts with holes, hearts like hollow, barren trees waiting to be filled.

Let us never forget that the Husbandman is never so near the land as when he is plowing it, the very time when we are tempted to think He hath forsaken us. His plowing is a proof that He thinks you of value, and worth chastening: for He does not waste His plowing on the barren sand. He will not plow continually, but only for a time, and for a definite purpose. Soon, aye soon, we shall, through these painful processes and by His gentle showers of grace, become His fruitful land.

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.