Desolation quotes
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They make a desolation and call it peace.
-- Agha Shahid Ali -
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 -
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
-- Francis Beaumont -
There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
-- Haruki Murakami -
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Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
-- Henry Kirke White -
Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
-- John Fowles -
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 -
In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
-- Margaret of Cortona -
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
-- Mark Hoppus -
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
-- Milan Kundera -
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
