Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming… — Virginia Woolf
Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same… — Neal A. Maxwell
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with… — Blaise Pascal
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to… — M. Scott Peck
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ...… — William Shakespeare
The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair. — Pope Benedict XVI
The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of… — Francis Schaeffer
When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and… — Isaac Asimov
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the… — Terry Tempest Williams
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land… — A. J. Jacobs
here in the summer desert, winter found my blood — Dean Koontz
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when… — James M. Barrie
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to… — Donald Miller
The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy. — Paulo Coelho
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if… — Tacitus
I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant,… — Paulo Coelho
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or… — Neil Gaiman
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room". — Frederick Salomon Perls
We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same… — Chuck Palahniuk
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
Sometimes I get tired of trying to convince him that I love him and shall love him for ever. He pounces on my words like… — Graham Greene
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her… — Alice Hoffman
at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits… — Margaret Atwood

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