Desert Quote by Peter Wessel Zapffe Download Open image “For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.” — Peter Wessel Zapffe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desert Desert island Deserted Islands Planets Tragedy
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner)… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Nobody knows the tragedy of a small island divided against itself better than a Cypriot. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace. — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
“There is no call for you to get tragic about it. Tragedy is easy enough to contrive. And if you want to be tragic, you can be tragic without destroying thirty thousand other people or without wasting a large amount of Earth property. You can drown in water right here, or jump into a volcano like the Japanese in the… — Cordwainer Smith Copy Share
“Og er ikke klippen sin tilbedelse værd? Prøver den ikke hjerte og nyrer før den gir plas for de utvalgte?” — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“But as he stands before imminent death, he grasps its nature also, and the cosmic import of the step to come. His creative imagination… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Her er rummelig og bredt, her slår vi oss ned i en grushaug og spiser mat og drikker saft og ligger på ryggen med… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig - at jeg… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“And now you will ask me about the musicians that played for the jackalope wives. Well, if you can find a place where they’ve… — Ursula Vernon Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“If you build a road in the desert and then leave it to its fate, the desert sands will swallow that road! The same… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
