Desert Quotes

They'll hurt you and desert you.

— James Taylor

An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

— Anonymous

I don't want to live in a desert of dirt.

— Agnes Moorehead

There is no desert like being friendless.

— Baltasar Gracian

In the desert, the only god is a well.

— Vera Nazarian

“I am the Love Cactus. Make desert to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

Green grass grows where dry desert ends.

— Og Mandino

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

— John Green

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

— Khalil Gibran

“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.”

— Paul Auster

“A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“May be God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees”

— Paulo Coelho

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

— Osbert Sitwell

“You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!”

— Avijeet Das

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

— Theophile Gautier

The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.

— Marissa Meyer

The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.

— Gloria Swanson

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows…

— Michael Ondaatje

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

— William Langewiesche

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a…

— Byron Katie

“Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you…

— Karen White

As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self.…

— Gabriel Zaid

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

— Gene Fowler

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

— Thomas Sowell

When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like…

— Tad R. Callister

The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come…

— Haniel Long

The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon…

— Charles Robert Maturin

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he…

— Antoine Rivarol

I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners…

— Margaret Atwood

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the…

— John Hoeven

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once…

— Carolyn Wells

That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed…

— Camille Flammarion

There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will…

— Henry Ward Beecher

One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared…

— Stephen Hawking

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,…

— Alan Thein Durning

“Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing…

— Jessica Khoury

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart…

— H. Rider Haggard

“I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk…

— Leonard Seet