Desert island Quote by Gregory David Roberts

“Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in…

— John C. Keats

“I learned something else that day: we all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all…

— Yeonmi Park

“You have made yourself an island of time, you are a time that has become detached from that vast Time in which your indefinite…

— Paul Valéry

“Many of us have lived desert lives: very small on the surface, and enormous under the ground.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“If there is something that I have learned from my time on this planet of ours, something that I can share and that I…

— Jellis Vaes

“...once you settle on an island, you never leave, an island holds on to what it has with all its might and main.”

— Roy Jacobsen

“For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work,…

— Chuma Nwokolo

“Still, though no one is an island, most are peninsulas. Our lives wouldn't make sense without personal memories pinned like butterflies against the velvet…

— Diane Ackerman

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“Only in the desert can forgotten things still flourish.”

— Stacie Shannon Denetsosie

“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find…

— Yeonmi Park

“There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last…

— Joanne Harris