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Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up out of the tattered gray wall-to-wall carpeting. It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. From the useless pole lamp in the living room it oozed out, meshing with the empty and wordless descent of itself from the fly-specked ceiling. It managed in fact to emerge from every object within his range of vision, as if it—the silence—meant to supplant all things tangible. Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Alive! He had often felt its austere approach before; when it came it burst in without subtlety, evidently unable to wait. The silence of the world could not rein back its greed. Not any longer. Not when it had virtually won.

~ Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick Civilization Greed Power Silence Wasteland

If no signal ever awakens any smoldering desire or seething passion in the wasteland of our mental universe, only a third eye may throw inspiriting light on the path to good vibrations. (“A thousand times”)

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie A Thousand Times Awaken Desire Ever Good Vibrations Inspirit Light Mental Passion Path Seething Signal Smoldering Third Eye Throw Universe Wasteland

When faced with unbridled wildness of reality, dinosaurs fall into fevered delusions of grandeur. In fits of madness, they recreate the world in their own overblown image, bull-dozing the wild and replacing it with a wasteland that reflects their own emptiness. Where there was once the incredibly complex diversity of nature, there is now the dead simplicity of asphalt and concrete.

~ Curious George Brigade

Curious George Brigade Anarchism Anarchy Asphalt Concrete Crimethinc Delusions Dinosaurs Emptiness Madness Nature Poltics Reality Wasteland

I am familiar with the phrase, ‘needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

~ David Sadler

David Sadler Paranormal Romance Urban Fantasy Wasteland

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.

~ Anthon St. Maarten

Anthon St. Maarten Buying Consumer Culture Consumerism Consumption Deprivation Desert Despair Emptiness Excess Happiness Happiness Fulfillment Desire Material Possessions Material World Materialism Materialism Versus Spiritualism Materialistic Materialistic Society Meaning Of Life Meaning Of Things Meaninglessness Modern Life Modern Society Money Happiness Money Not Happiness Nausea Nihilism Nihilistic Opulence Poverty Pursuit Of Happiness Self Inflicted Pain Soul Searching Soulless Spending Spiritual Development Spiritual Growth Spiritual Life Spiritual Wisdom Spirituality Suffocate Wastefulness Wasteland Wealth Wealth And Virtues Wealth Of Soul

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

~ Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Active Life Adulthood Darkness Fulfillment Life Maturity Preparation Self Wasteland

This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and the silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing process.

~ Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed Healing Healing Process Lake Mazama Mountain Silence Stillness Wasteland Water

I fear that the evil which man brings into this world will never be squelched, leaving behind a terrible, uninhabitable wasteland of a world for our...” She stuttered minutely before continuing, “...children and their children.

~ Benjamin M. Strozykowski

Benjamin M. Strozykowski Children Evil Fear Wasteland

One day it may feel as if energy and enthusiasm are quenched, feelings dried up and emotions scorched, love and affection tangled in a harsh and uninviting setting. Nothing seems to grow anymore. No seed. No flowers. No foreseeable hope. No conceivable prospects. Any blossom of expectation seems to have become an illusion and life appears to have come to a standstill. If no seed of loving care is sown in the untilled, abandoned land, no bud can come into flower. Singer Amy Winehouse felt like lying fallow in the ground of a wasteland with tears dry, dying a hundred times, going back to black and leaving eventually for a place of ultimate sorrow and heartbreak, for a point of no return. ( “Amour en friche” )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Erik Pevernagie Affection Amy Winehouse Care Emotions Expectation Fallow Feelings Heartbreak Hope Illusion Life Love Point Of No Return Sorrow Tears Wasteland
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