Arabia Quote by David

Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

— Mildred Cable

A desert is a place without expectation.

— Nadine Gordimer

Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.

— Washington Allston

The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

There is no desert like being friendless.

— Baltasar Gracian

Water, water, water…There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock,…

— Edward Abbey

Let each man have according to his deserts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount...unless you try to establish a city where…

— Edward Abbey

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak.…

— Pablo Neruda

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

— Michael Ondaatje