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Desolation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Father of light and life! Thou Good Supreme! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my Soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure- Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!— THOMSON — The Seasons. Winter. L. 217.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live!— WORDSWORTH — Ode to Duty.

On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.— BRYANT — Trans. The Paradise of Tears.

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 24.

Desolate-Life is so dreary and desolate- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan- Holding and having its brief exultation- Making its lonesome and low lamentation- Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.— ALICE CARY — Life.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.— GEORGE ELIOT — Romola. Ch. XLIV.

No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own. S.— LONGFELLOW — Endymion.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 1.

There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul shall pity me.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 200.

Gone-flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.— TENNYSON — The Window. Gone.