desolate quotes

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possessed A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 24.

All is now desolate, fantastic, and ambushed with ghosts; the archaeologists twitter among them like bats.

-Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose
  Of  Angkor Thom. Pleasure of Ruins.

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