Desert Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can…

— Wilkie Collins

“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships…

— Al Riske

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind…

— William Blake

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

— Vera Nazarian

“We could return from sand if we had to--form into a beautiful mosaic of glass that told our story in colors.”

— Addison Moore

“The deserts of Arabia are innocent of our civilised desolation-the ruins of Palestine are incapable of our modern gloom!”

— Wilkie Collins

“A desert is a lot like an ocean, if you replace all of the water with air. It stretches out and out in unfathomable…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me. 'Well, it would be useless for me…

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr

“I had an "hour glass" figure, but unfortunately the sand shifted.”

— Various

“There are those who think the desert has been dealt so severe and desiccated a hand by nature that it cannot be rendered more…

— Gary J. George

The Sahara was a spectacle as alive as the sea. The tints of the dunes changed according to the time of day and the…

— Simone de Beauvoir

If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set…

— Hannah Arendt