Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante

“All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure meaning of…

— John Fante

“It was as if there were no names here, as if there were no words. The desert cleansed everything in its wind, wiped everything…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“You dream of a desert, where mirages are your rulers and tormentors, yet these images come from you.”

— Gary R. Renard

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“I learned something else that day: we all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all…

— Yeonmi Park

“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find…

— Yeonmi Park

“The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell…

— C. Lynn Murphy

“He felt like a pilgrim standing on the shores of Lake Sahara, having walked barefoot over hundreds of miles, yet all the hardships forgotten,…

— Sherry Thomas

“I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk the same…

— Leonard Seet

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

— Stephen King