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Quotes About Desolate

my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow...
~ John Geddes
you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes
~ john j geddes
This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness
~ john j geddes
It keeps eternal whisperings aroundDesolate shores, and with its mighty swellGluts twice ten thousand caverns.
~ John Keats
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed, and they remained in that state for at least half a million, and perhaps as many as several million, years. (The desolate post-impact sea has been dubbed the "Strangelove ocean.")
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.
~ Garth Nix
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
~ Sappho
If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.
~ Marilynne Robinson
A flip dark chill winter bastard though dry
~ Anthony Burgess
Vastitas Borealis
~ Arthur C. Clarke
As he stood by the desolate fire, he felt that the only one thing which could assuage his grief would be thorough and complete retribution, brought by his own hand upon his enemies.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You sure do look forlorn,
~ Barbara O'Connor
13And in the columns of heaven I beheld fires, which descended without number, but neither on high, nor into the deep. Over these fountains also I perceived a place which had neither the firmament of heaven above it, nor the solid ground underneath it; neither was there water above it; nor anything on wing; but the spot was desolate. 14And there I beheld seven stars, like great blazing mountains, and like spirits entreating me.
~ Enoch
The region is altogether valueless. After entering it, there is nothing to do but leave. -Lt. Edward Beale, Congress report on Arizona, 1858
~ Sean Condon
will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you curse the hour of your birth.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ah, it's a real pit. Sort of place where they eat what they run over on the road. Gorillaville. You eat the beer, then you drink
~ Stephen King
Never had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other.
~ Stephen King
triste comme une maison démeublée ;
~ Gustave Flaubert
Once more I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sand like an ogre under a coverlet
~ H.P. Lovecraft
When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal— cacodemoniacal—and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Last night this street had been teeming with people. Now there was practically nobody. Those who were there either slept on a stoop or moved with amazing lethargy, legs congealed together, arms melted against their sides. Mike half expected a patch of tumbleweed to blow through the middle of the street. "You
~ Harlan Coben