Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had… — Joseph Heller
The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given… — Michael Ondaatje
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might… — Charles Spurgeon
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But… — John Ashbery
most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into… — Edward Abbey
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore… — Dylan Moran
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same… — Paulo Coelho
But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden shock, astonishment, or… — Douglas Adams
That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse… — Ahdaf Soueif
That would be a glorious life, to addict oneself to perfection; to follow the curve of the sentence wherever it might lead, into deserts, under… — Virginia Woolf
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible! — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you… — Charles de Lint
She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island... — George Bernard Shaw
Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert. — Michael Ondaatje
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century… — Henry Rollins
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and… — Anna Godbersen
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility… — Carlos Castaneda
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man… — Daniel Quinn
Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you… — Paulo Coelho
And something chocolate, of course. A meal was not a meal without some sort of chocolate for desert. — Janet Evanovich
On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop — Paulo Coelho
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from… — Denis Johnson
...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that… — Joanne Greenberg
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains. — Wallace Stegner

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