Desert Quotes

963 Desert quotes by 707 unique authors

The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran… — Ernest Hemingway
People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who… — Stephen Fry
I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sku was the color of… — Jeffrey Eugenides
But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind… — Laini Taylor
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where… — Unknown Author
Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every… — George R. R. Martin
The dunes are changed by the wind, but the desert never changes. That's the way it will be with our love for each other — Paulo Coelho
If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert where your remains lay decomposing for several… — Darynda Jones
In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because… — Alain de Botton
The messengers of Jesus will be hated to the end of time. They will be blamed for all the division which rend cities and homes.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. — Ian Mcewan
For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales. — Marissa Meyer
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and… — Arthur C. Clarke
His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard… — Paul Valery
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. — John Green
You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then… — Cassandra Clare
We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the… — Katy Evans
I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete;… — Kiersten White
I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in… — Kiersten White
It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds. — Neil Gaiman
Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. — Daniel Silva
Belatedly, she realized something else. “Do you … have anything?” He didn’t seem to have recovered from her last comment. “But do you mean —… — Cassandra Clare
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss… — Laini Taylor

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