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Agha Shahid Ali / Poet
Desolation
Farewell
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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
Laini Taylor / Author
Angel
Bitter
Desolation
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Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
John Fowles / Novelist
Desolation
Sight
Whole
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After desolation, grief brings back our humanity.
Mason Cooley /
Desolation
Grief
Humanity
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
James A. Baldwin / Novelist
Desolation
Fearful
Splendor
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Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
Francis Beaumont / Dramatist
Desolation
Grace
Robes
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To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
Confucius / Philosopher
Desolation
Thinking
Vain
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If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.
Baruch Spinoza / Philosopher
Men
Desolation
Slavery
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Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.
Mark Hoppus / Musician
Antarctica
Beautiful
Cold
Desolation
Seen
Stark
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Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?
Henry Kirke White / Poet
Time
Desolation
Lord
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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 / Writer
Depth
Desolation
Lost
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In times of desolation, God conceals Himself from us so that we can discover for ourselves what we are without Him.
Margaret Of Cortona / Saint
Desolation
Saint
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
Milan Kundera / Writer
Choices
Desolation
Unhappy
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It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.
Rosamunde Pilcher / Author
Desolation
Disappointment
Hopefully
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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 / Writer
Desolation
Gone
Oneself
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Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
Kristin Armstrong / Olympic Athlete
Circumstances
Desolation
Pain
Intended
Places
Visit
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We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
James Larkin / Trade Unionist
Desolation
Enemy
Fields
Hills
Ireland
Preservation
Waste
Laid
Shall
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames / Former United States Representative
Democracy
Desolation
Destruction
Eruption
Fiery
Materials
Produce
Volcanoes
Way
Carry
Volcano
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The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
Arthur Erickson / Architect
Dark
Delusion
Desolation
Feelings
May
Amuse
Devoid
Initial
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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.
Norman Borlaug / Agricultural Scientist
Age
Ancient
Desolation
Despair
Disease
Drought
Plant
Ages
Diseases
Remedies
Spirits
Supernatural
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In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.
Roy Harper / Singer-Songwriter
Alienation
Cities
Desolation
Flow
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It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman / U.s. General
War
Blood
Cry
Desolation
Heard
Hell
Vengeance
Wounded
Aloud
Shot
Those
Fired
Groans
Neither
Nor
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Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.
James Otis / Lawyer
Men
Desolation
Different Emotions
Every Man
Petty
Reign
Secure
Soul
Spread
Terror
Trump
Tyranny
Tyrants
Emotions
Excite
Shall
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'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
Luke Evans / Actor
Desolation
Epic
Extraordinary
Peter
Plus
Stunning
Directed
Jackson
Peter Jackson
Stands
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And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
Gordon Parks / Photographer
Beautiful
Desolation
Poverty
Thinking
Years
Nearly
Planet
Showing
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I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.
King George V /
Desolation
Silent
War Peace Myself
Advocate
Asked
Multitude
Potent
Witnesses
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The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.
Mother Angelica / Nun
Christian
Consolation
Darkness
Desolation
Exile
Fulfillment
Joy
Pain
Paradox
Sorrow
Turmoil
Experiences
Possesses
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In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
Sabine Baring-Gould /
Cornwall
Desolation
Mockery
Stride
Vegetation
For The People
Richest
Wood
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There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.
Sarah Doudney / Novelist
Charm
Desolation
Emotion
Eye
Faces
Granted
Mobile
Perfect
Silent
Simplicity
Naturally
Soft
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Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.
James Howard Kunstler / Author
Dream
Home
American Dream
Apple Pie
Damage
Desolation
Home Town
Icons
Motherhood
Obvious
Pie
Visible
Apple
Every American
Install
Wal-Mart
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman / U.s. General
War
Blood
Cry
Desolation
Glory
Heard
Hell
Moonshine
Sick
Tired
Vengeance
Wounded
Aloud
Am
Only
Who
Shot
Those
Fired
Groans
Neither
Nor
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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 / Poet
Desolation
Difficult
Operations
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Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
Jules Verne / Novelist
Desolation
Imagine
Misfortunes
Rich
Unknown
Afflictions
Calamities
Disasters
Disorders
Neither
Nor
Ruin
Sorrows
Tribulations
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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett / Journalist
War
Atomic Bomb
Damage
Desolation
Eden
Four
Frightening
Greater
Islands
Pacific
Terrible
Testing
Years
Atomic
Show
Bomb
Photographs
Far
Island
Seem
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Journey
Desolation
Exile
Hiking
Islands
Mass
Strange
Surf
Sweeping
Tumult
Week
Wet
Walk Me Day
Anywhere
Nearly
Round
Island
Passed
Strip
Waves
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Occasionally, Americans in large numbers are moved by a vanquished athlete's grief. Larry Bird with a towel over his head in 1979 comes immediately to mind. But more often, sports fans do the opposite - they delight in the desolation of a defeated archrival.
Steve Rushin / Journalist
Athlete
Bird
Defeated
Delight
Desolation
Grief
Large Numbers
Numbers
Occasionally
Towel
Vanquished
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In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.
Viktor E. Frankl / M.d.
Positive
Achieve
Action
Beloved
Desolation
Fulfillment
Honorable
May
Position
Right Way
Man
He
Cannot
Carries
Through
Utter
Consist
Enduring
Express
Himself
His
Image
Loving
Right
Sufferings
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After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.
Phil Elverum /
Crow
Desolation
Destruction
Tribute
Beautiful Me Remember
Portrait
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The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
Bruce Chatwin / Novelist
Curtains
Desolation
Disillusion
Exile
Five
Lace
Taken
Among
Behind
Directory
Telephone
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If you persist in your purpose of secession, there will be war - a bloody and cruel war. Not only will the North fight, but she will also triumph. The experiment of secession will fail, and the South, in ruin and desolation, will bitterly repent the day when she attempted to overthrow a wise and beneficent government.
Ambrose Burnside / Former Governor Of Rhode Island
Wise
Bloody
Desolation
Persist
Repent
Secession
Triumph
War Government Fight
Attempted
Beneficent
Cruel
Experiment
Overthrow
Ruin
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