Desolation Quotes

In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

They make a desolation and call it peace.

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

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.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

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.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?