Deceit Quote by William Cowper

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

— Cheryl Strayed

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

— Jeremiah

“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised…

— Jane Kirkpatrick

Wilderness is not so much a place, but a feeling about one.

— Roderick Nash

I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable,…

— Edward Abbey

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods. It took me four years, seven months,…

— Cheryl Strayed

From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where…

— Timothy Treadwell

“Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that of the present is not a sad fate--unless one attempts to make himself believe…

— John Dewey

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to…

— Ben Jonson