Desolating Quotes

Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

It is extremely desolating news that he should have died when he was only 68 and always seemed so much younger. - Andrew Motion

Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country. - Ambrose Bierce