Desolating Quotes

#1. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

Paulo Coelho

#3. It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.

Wallace Stegner

#4. Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help.

John Knowles

#5. Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.

John Dos Passos

#6. Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

Bede Jarrett

#7. The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#8. Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

John Ruskin

#9. Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside.

Helen Macdonald

#11. When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

David Atwood

#12. I have learned that sometimes "sorry" is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.

A Meredith Walters

#13. All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

Rumi

#14. What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.

Frederick Lenz

#15. It's so much easier to be ignored when no one's noticed you to begin with.

Talia Vance

#16. There were days when Earth's small glories were luminous enough to dim church icons to duller golds. Diving from the roof into fresh snow. Throwing dishes from the window after Mother's funeral. I have been blessed.

Anthony Marra

#17. The explosion of human knowledge has accelerated to the point where even the most brilliant can't cope with it any more. Theories have rigidified into dogma just as they did in the Middle Ages. The leading experts feel obligated to protect their creed against the heretics.

John Brunner

#18. We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. For thus men seyth, That on thenketh the beere,
But al another thenketh his ledere.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#20. Maybe we're all shedding our fear and regret and hope everywhere we go, and we're catching up traces of people we've never met. Maybe it's everywhere.

Scott Cawthon

#21. The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

Apple Inc.

#22. In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Narendra Modi

#23. You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

John Mackey

#24. I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

Dominique Swain

#25. I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

Paul Newman