Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Don't think about what you've left behind" The alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "If… — Paulo Coelho
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and… — Marisha Pessl
Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?! — Erma Bombeck
The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.… — Cormac McCarthy
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. — Cormac McCarthy
I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth… — Rebecca Solnit
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I… — Robertson Davies
I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought… — William Saroyan
At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her… — Paulo Coelho
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is… — Paulo Coelho
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson
She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give… — Denis Johnson
I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into… — Michael Ondaatje
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old… — Margaret Atwood
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel —… — Joseph Conrad
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't… — Jerry Spinelli
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with… — Bruce Chatwin
I salute to you Commander and I sneeze 'Cause I have Now an Allergy To your policies it seems Where have we gone wrong America?… — Tori Amos
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in… — Herman Melville
For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire. — Unknown Author
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can… — Ted Dekker
Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water… — Edward Abbey

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