1.
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
Margaret of Cortona
2.
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.
Rosamunde Pilcher
4.
Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Mark Hoppus
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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
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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
Baruch Spinoza
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Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.
Jack Kerouac
10.
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
Milan Kundera
11.
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
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To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
Confucius
13.
Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
John Fowles
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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
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After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.
Mason Cooley
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Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Henry Kirke White