Deserted Quotes

124 quotes by 116 authors

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The word landed with a stony thud Onto my still-beating breast. Nevermind, I was prepared, I will manage with the rest. I have a lot… — Anna Akhmatova
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit… — Robin McKinley
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in… — Walter de La Mare
There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all,… — Liz Kessler
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully. — Haruki Murakami
Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street. — Harper Lee
Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that… — MaryJanice Davidson
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true. — Franz Kafka
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was… — Jean-Paul Sartre
For animals that are overworked, underfed, and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in captivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are… — Albert Schweitzer
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green
It's funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall,… — Donna Tartt
You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew… — Max Brooks
Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends. — Graham Greene
Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my… — Margaret Atwood
In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces… — Helen Oyeyemi

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