desolation quotes

Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.

- Edwin E(ugene) Jr known as  'Buzz' Aldrin
  Spoken as he stepped out of the Eagle to join Neil Armstrong on the first moon walk, 20  Jul.

Pax Romana.Where they made a desolation they called Burke it a peace.What absolutenonsense! It was a nasty, vulgar sort of civilization, only dignified by being hidden under a lot of declensions.

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.2.

DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.

-William Cobbett
  On Deal, Kent. Rural Rides (published1830), entry for 3 Sep.

Kangaroo, Kangaroo! Thou Spirit of Australia, That redeems from utter failure, From perfect desolation, And warrants the creation Of this fifth part of the Earth.

- Barron Field
  First Fruits of  Australian Poetry,'The Kangaroo'.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace on earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

-GeorgeV
  Message read at the Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, 13 May.

Desolation Angels.

-Jack (John) Kerouac
   Title of novel.

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper-weight, All the misery of manila folders and mucilage, Desolation in immaculate public places.

-Will Rogers
  The Lost Son,'Dolor'.

A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift A love in desolation masked;a Power Girt round with weakness;it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;even whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 32.