Quotes about Desolation

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.

My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.

Still passing through the same desolate country, we see that he makes a note on the forsaken fields and the watch-towers in them. Cucumbers are cultivated in large quantities by the natives of Inner Africa, and the reader will no doubt call to mind the simile adopted by Isaiah some 2500 years ago, as he pictured the coming desolation of Zion, likening her to a "lodge in a garden of cucumbers".

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."