Desolation Quotations

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

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

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.

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.