Absence Quote by Michael Ondaatje

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

— Michael Ondaatje

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

— Michael Ondaatje

“I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself…

— Edward Abbey

The heart of a man is like deep water

— Douglas Coupland

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

Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— Joe Abercrombie

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

— David

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

— Michael Ondaatje

For when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through places without water, seeking rest; and not finding. . .

— Bruno of Cologne

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

— Standing Bear

Without water the desert is nothing but a grave.

— Mildred Cable