Desolated Quotes

#1. O father, father
Gone from us, lost to us,
The church lies bereft,
Alone,
Desecrated, desolated.
And the heathen shall build
On the ruins
Their world without God.
I see it.
I see it.

T. S. Eliot

#2. The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion and their eloquence for their own sufferings, when the provinces were invaded and desolated by the arms of the successful Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

#3. Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

Jane Porter

#4. Hotel's full up, I'm afraid, Mr. Roper, Jonathan rehearsed in another last-ditch effort to fend off the inevitable. Herr Meister is desolated. A temporary clerk has made an unpardonable error. However, we have managed to obtain rooms for you at the Baur au Lac, et cetera.

John Le Carre

#5. This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated.

James Cameron

#6. There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -"
"I am desolated!"
"That's a good boy!

Agatha Christie

#7. And the storm he was deliberately creating raked over the decimated landscape of his soul, obscuring the ragged, desolated mess he was.

J.R. Ward

#8. And as on Tullia's tomb one lamp burned clear,
Unchanged for fifteen hundred year ... '
He repeated the lines to himself, and was desolated to think of all the murdered past.

Aldous Huxley

#9. It desolates me to disappoint you, but your brother is not here. Despite two really praiseworthy attempts at rescue."
... The hint of amusement irritated me, and sick and hurt as I was, I simply had to retort something. "Glad ... at least ... you're desolated.

Sherwood Smith

#10. You won't break me. Just fucking own me.

Clancy Nacht

#11. I think I'm a better comedic actress than I am a dramatic actress, but everybody believes I'm this dramatic actress and I'll take it.

Taraji P. Henson

#12. Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery

Iceberg Slim

#13. What are your hobbies?" "Sports, weight lifting, drinking, fucking.

Kandi Steiner

#14. The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.

John Clayton

#15. Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

Maya Angelou

#16. My father married my mother three days after they met.
Your father also killed and maimed people for a living. How about we just place him in the Not-To-Emulate pile?
Shattered Glass by Dani Alexander (Chpt 14)

Dani Alexander

#17. If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

Carl Rogers