Quotes by Desolation They make a desolation and call it peace. Agha Shahid Ali desolation farewell If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune. Baruch Spinoza desolation slavery men To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation. Confucius desolation vain thinking He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. Evelyn Beatrice Hall desolation depth lost Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. Francis Beaumont robes desolation grace Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? Henry Kirke White desolation lord time Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation. Jack Kerouac desolation There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation. James A. Baldwin fearful splendor desolation Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation. John Fowles desolation whole sight Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels. Laini Taylor bitter desolation angel to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself. Margaret Campbell Barnes desolation oneself gone In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him. Margaret of Cortona desolation saint Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation. Mark Hoppus desolation cold beautiful After desolation, grief brings back our humanity. Mason Cooley desolation grief humanity As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. Milan Kundera desolation choices unhappy It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment. Rosamunde Pilcher hopefully desolation disappointment It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power. Seamus Heaney operations desolation difficult
