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Quotes About Barren

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
~ Thomas Traherne
By the deficiency or absence of one necessary constituent, all the others being present, the soil is rendered barren for all those crops to the life of which that one constituent is indispensable.
~ Justus von Liebig
Now we notice that Mars doesn't have any atmosphere either and won't support life. In spite of the fact that it turns green and red and purple with the seasons, it doesn't support life.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.
~ Garth Nix
We are not computers; we cannot download information about God or life by direct transfer. Life is beautiful and barren and impossibly complex. Books and conferences help us think about our lives, but most of life is not thinking about life—it's living through
~ Sally Clarkson
Let us go hence and rest; she will not love. She shall not hear us if we sing hereof, Nor see love's ways, how sore they are and steep. Come hence, let be, lie still; it is enough. Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep; And though she saw all heaven in flower above,              She would not love!
~ Marie Corelli
It was as if the light had coaxed a flowering from the frost, which before seemed barren and parched as salt. The grass shone with petal colors, and water drops spilled from all the trees as innumerably as petals.
~ Marilynne Robinson
A flip dark chill winter bastard though dry
~ Anthony Burgess
Vastitas Borealis
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.
~ Sigrid Nunez
It is the thought of the possible favor of God and of his mercy that makes me tremble with a sort of fear. On the other hand the sense of being like a barren fig tree for Christ tears my heart.
~ Simone Weil
Some have too much noise going on in their world and don't hear the whisper. Others hear, but the thought dies on the barren ground of their low self-esteem or is suffocated under the avalanche of their fears. Still others rationalize that they have too many problems or situations to face. But some know that they must put everything to one side, and, just do it.
~ John Mullen
For a time, all was still: for the yards there, like the grounds, are desperately bleak, all dirt and gravel—there is not so much as a blade of grass to be shivered by the breezes, or a worm or a beetle for a bird to swoop for.
~ Sarah Waters
He is a stem, a husk, barren and thin, withered by sun, erased by wind, emptied by seasons of dullness, marked by seconds of duty, scarred by regret only the faintest of lines dare to write out, which no one, not even him, can interpret anymore. People have told him a crow will reveal more than anything his face has to share.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
It is a wonderful place, the moor, said he, looking round over the undulating downs, long green rollers, with crests of jagged granite foaming up into fantastic surges. You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.
~ Audre Lorde
No sun shall rise today for human eyes to see; the world entire is wrapped round in whirling white, an impenetrable cloud of cold and ice that chills the heart as it freezes the ground.
~ Stephanie Barron
The Indian languages are extremely barbarous and barren, and very ill fitted for communicating things moral and divine, or even things speculative and abstract.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
~ beecher henry ward xii
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.
~ beecher henry ward xix
the waiting areas maintained the unique combination of cramped busyness and barren inhumanity that was the glory of British architecture in the second half of the twentieth century.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Crows gather in a tree barren of leaves and make its branches appear heavy with some black, poisonous fruit.
~ Benjamin Percy
I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.
~ Twyla Tharp
I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That's how I'd stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristine. I pictured my pelvis split open, to reveal a tidy hollow, like the nest of a vanished animal.
~ Gillian Flynn