Desert island Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Imagine fifty thousand men trapped on a desert island, deprived of food and water and sex but somehow kept alive for fifty thousand years.…

— David Wong

“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with…

— Peter L. Berger

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll…

— Anna Friel

If I had to live on a desert island, and somebody gave me a chicken, there's no way I'd kill it - I'd call…

— Anita Dobson

A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by…

— Karin Slaughter

When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself…

— Blaise Pascal

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas…

— Candace Bushnell

Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand…

— Neil Gaiman

“A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could pick out…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

— Ayn Rand

“For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a…

— W.H. Auden

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

— Etty Hillesum