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Quotes About Desolate

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
~ Thomas Hood
Worthless as wither'd weeds.
~ Emily Bronte
Here is no water but only rock.
~ T. S. Eliot
He's just a pore lonesome wife-left fellar.
~ Nelson Algren
cold as a well-digger's ass in Maine.
~ Nelson DeMille
There it was, again, that hurt in his eyes. Maybe hurt. Something. Sadness. That was it. She detested that look. He shouldn't ever feel unhappy. It was more than unhappy. Desolate, as if he was completely alone and she'd taken his last joy from him.
~ Christine Feehan
Her soul was poisoned soil in which nothing good could grow.
~ Laini Taylor
the Dead Sea valley, at more than thirteen hundred feet below sea level, was tranquil. A desolate landscape, but strangely it was where Jack felt closest to God. Not that he was deeply religious. More spiritual.
~ Glenn Meade
New York you forgot how cold and bleak winter could be. The neon lights, the moving crowds, the taxi-filled streets stampeded the snow into slush and the slush into gray water that quickly disappeared and you forgot about the bare, desolate ground of the outside world. The loneliness of winter. The
~ Jacqueline Susann
The Australian Outback can be quite unforgiving.
~ Jason O'Mara
Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.
~ Christopher Titus
Economics is not a gay science. It is a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.
~ Thomas Carlyle
In this pittifull (or rather pittilesse) perplexitie stood London, forsaken like a Lover, forlorne like a widow, and disarmde of all comfort.
~ Thomas Dekker
New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars.
~ Kelly Macdonald
Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.
~ Colum McCann
Reno, a dreary town in Nevada
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I am glimmerless.
~ Charles Baxter
A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times.
~ Charles Dickens
Through the clear mirror of your eyes, Through the soft sigh of kiss to kkiss, Desolate winds assail with cries The shadowy garden where love is.
~ James Joyce
Through the clear mirror of your eyes, Through the soft sigh of kiss to kiss, Desolate winds assail with cries The shadowy garden where love is.
~ James Joyce
He reminded me now, sharply, that one of my partners had been killed on the street and that only months ago, Jacobi and I had both been shot in a desolate alley in the Tenderloin. It was true. We'd both nearly died.
~ James Patterson
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,No comfortable feel in any member—No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds—November!
~ Thomas Hood
To salve the pains of consciousness, some people anesthetize themselves with sunny thoughts. But not everyone can follow their lead, above all not those who sneer at the sun and everything upon which it beats down. Their only respite is in the balm of bleakness. Disdainful of the solicitations of hope, they look for sanctuary in desolate places - a scattering of ruins in a barren locale or a rubble of words in a book where someone whispers in a dry voice, "I too am here.
~ Thomas Ligotti