Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert. — Edith Wharton
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate… — C.S. Lewis
The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight… — Roberto Bolano
You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so... — Michelle Moran
Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name. — Walt Whitman
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,… — Michael Ondaatje
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet… — Dante Alighieri
Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin… — Libba Bray
Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what… — Graham Greene
It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There… — H. Rider Haggard
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. — Charles Baudelaire
He is in my soul and i am in his, and we are in bed but we are in a desert, and i do not… — Karen Marie Moning
Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing… — Isaac Asimov
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You… — Mary Oliver
We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will… — Aron Ralston
For desert, maybe we can split a couple of crumbs. — Nicholas Sparks
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a… — Anneli Rufus
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel… — Hunter S. Thompson
I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back;… — Lu Xun
Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative… — Jodi Picoult
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of… — Brennan Manning
Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend… — Brian Jacques

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