Quotes About Desolate

This is what they mean by 'ghost town', she thought. It truly feels like a place frozen in time

el suelo desolado y ausente, sediento de agua

Elhagyatottak vagyunk, akár a gyermek, és tapasztaltak, mint az öregember. Durvák, szomorúak és fölületesek vagyunk – azt hiszem, el vagyunk veszve.

The sun burned like an open sore in a sky the colour of bleached bone.

Nansen had moreover introduced a startling new concept into Polar exploration. He had deliberately cut off his lines of retreat. His route was from the desolate east coast to the inhabited west. This was not bravado, but calculated exploitation of the instinct of self-preservation. It drove him on; there was no incentive to look back.

tumbledown shack

A fat yellow moon appeared in the branches of the fig tree as if it were going to roost there with the chickens. He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

He didn't have any friends

a decimated wasteland

The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache. Then

The pretty landlady was desolate. She would have taken D'Artagnan not only as her husband, but as her God, he was so handsome and had so fierce a mustache.

She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.

leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld.

Everything had been beaten down and baked by the sun

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock.

It's so delicate, the light. And there's so little of it. The dark is huge. Just delicate needles, the light, in an endless night. And it has such a long way to go through such desolate space. So let's be gentle with it. Cherish it. So it will come again in the morning. We hope." 'Just Delicate Needles'—by Rolf Jacobsen (translated by Robert Hedin)

En medio del desolado paraje, incluso el tétrico bosque de más allá parecía un hogar acogedor.

Rose had never been one to fantasize about guys and romance … but she couldn't help her thoughts as she watched her delicious mentor sleep, his handsome face appearing younger in rest. She couldn't help but imagine that her future on the run might not be so desolate if she had someone who excited her by her side.

it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...