All things Quote by Edward Abbey

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert…

— Aleister Crowley

“I’d forgotten how enlivening it could feel, seeing clearly and far. Aridity frees light. It also unleashes grandeur. The earth here wasn’t cloaked in…

— Julene Bair

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to…

— Anonymous

a spiritual desert is spreading - an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is…

— Edward Abbey

What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

— William Shakespeare

Solitude, waste of a man. This fades as soon as the sun sets.

— Chevelle

In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty…

— Robert E. Howard

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of…

— Swami Vivekananda

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its…

— Jean Baudrillard