Top 305 Barren Quotes & Sayings

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.

Without friendship and the openness and trust that go with it, skills are barren and knowledge may become an unguided missile.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

My personal life is fairly barren.

It seemed to me that I now saw the Star Maker in two aspects: as the spirit's particular creative mood that had given rise to me, the cosmos; and also, most dreadfully, as something incomparably greater than creativity, namely as the eternally achieved perfection of the absolute spirit. Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruitful grain of your religious counsels.

I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match.

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles.

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who are full of wind and never come to term miscarry before they come to the light of the knowledge of God, although they could as well become men if they were not altogether hidden in the womb of barren wisdom?

God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."

Stercus Accidit. [barren happens]

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.