Phil Elverum

After I made 'A Crow Looked at Me,' I remember people saying things to me like, 'You've made a beautiful tribute to Genevieve.' And I felt like, no! No no no, I haven't. I made a tribute to my own destruction and desolation. This is not a portrait of her. That's not who she was. She wasn't just a person who died.

American Musician

William Tecumseh Sherman

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

American Soldier

Sabine Baring-Gould

In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.

English Clergyman

King George V

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

British Royalty

Gordon Parks

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

American Photographer

James Otis

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

American Lawyer

Arthur Erickson

The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.

Canadian Architect

James Larkin

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

Irish Activist

Kristin Armstrong

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

American Athlete

Mark Hoppus

Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

Use 'desolation' to describe the aftermath of disasters, emphasizing visuals of emptiness.

Aftermath Imagery

'Desolation' may also refer to feeling emotionally empty or hollow.

Not Just Physical

'Complete' or 'utter' often intensify 'desolation'. The word suggests an extreme state.

Intensity

'Desolation' encapsulates profound loneliness, not just a fleeting sadness.

Emotional State

Often found in literature to convey intense emotional landscapes or character's mindset.

Literary Context

 you know I'm gonna partially close the hatch being careful not to lock it on my way yeah not so funny they're hidden a handle on what was that like I mean when you think about it today you said magnificent desolation what do

Buzz Aldrin: Mission to...

 through the cow pastures of Montana, through the desolation of Detroit, through the swamps of New Orleans, where we found and worked with men and women who were building small businesses that made purpose their bottom line.