46 Quotes About Desolation

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

Strangely it came to Gale then that he was glad. Yaqui had returned to his own — the great spaces, the desolation, the solitude — to the trails he had trodden when a child, trails haunted now by ghosts of his people, and ever by his gods. Gale realized that in the Yaqui he had known the spirit of the desert, that this spirit had claimed all which was wild and primitive in him.

you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes

In the desert, the only god is a well.

There were both desolations and calm compassions in this Jesus of Nazareth

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Religion starts with desolation and ends with misery.