Desert famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
-- Abu Nuwas -
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
-- Albert Camus -
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.
-- Alexander Smith -
And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
-- Andrew Marvell -
Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
-- Andy Gibb -
Many of the tribal peoples of the world recognize that there are four places in nature where you can find deep peace and remember who you really are. One is in the deep woods; one is in the desert; one in the mountains and one near the ocean
-- Angeles Arrien -
If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
-- Anne Roiphe -
I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.
-- Annie Fellows Johnston -
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
When you live on cash, you understand the limits of the world around which you navigate each day. Credit leads into a desert with invisible boundaries.
-- Anton Chekhov -
My mother's English, and she always was fascinated by the desert.
-- Arizona Muse -
Like looking through a telescope into the Milky Way and wondering if we're alone in the universe, it made me realize with the glaring clarity of desert light how scarce and delicate life is, how insignificant we are compared with the forces of nature and the dimensions of space.
-- Aron Ralston -
The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.
-- Arthur Symons -
The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
-- Bear Grylls -
Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead
-- Beck -
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
-- Bill Viola -
I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
-- Billy Connolly -
It's like going out to the desert and screaming and then having little kids throw their sandbox at you. I'm only 24.
-- Bob Dylan -
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
-- Brennan Manning -
If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.
-- Bruce Chatwin -
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
-- Campbell Scott -
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.
-- Carmen Boullosa -
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
-- Charles Churchill -
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
-- Charles Darwin -
To receive the grace of God you must go to the desert and stay awhile.
-- Charles de Foucauld -
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state.
-- Charles de Lint -
The fountain of my heart dried up within me,-- With nought that loved me, and with nought to love, I stood upon the desert earth alone. And in that deep and utter agony, Though then, then even most unfit to die I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.
-- Charles Robert Maturin -
I must explore desert ground and see what can grow. But there are limits. I know in my heart what I would never do.
-- Charlotte Rampling -
If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson
-- Chris Van Allsburg -
The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.
-- Christopher Pike -
The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.
-- Craig Childs -
Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.
-- Daniel Silva -
There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.
-- David -
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big.
-- David Lean -
But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
-- Deb Caletti -
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
-- Demetri Martin -
Forests precede us and deserts dog our heels.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.
-- Dwayne Hickman -
[Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.
-- Dylan Moran -
I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it’s really quite tight.
-- Eddie Izzard -
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
-- Edward Abbey -
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
-- Edward Abbey -
Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
-- Edward Abbey -
We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
-- Edward Bond -
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
-- Edward Ruscha -
I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost.
-- Edward T. Hall -
Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.
-- Ella Leya -
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
-- Ella Maillart -
I do believe I begin to grasp the nature of miracles! For would it be a miracle, if there was any reason for it? Miracles have nothing to do with reason. Miracles contradict reason, they strike clean across mere human deserts, and deliver and save where they will. If they made sense, they would not be miracles.
-- Ellis Peters -
The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.
-- Emanuel Celler -
I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.
-- Erika Slezak -
Just think of all those women on the Titanic who said, 'No thank you' to desert that night. And for what?!
-- Erma Bombeck -
Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?
-- Ernesto Sabato -
I plan on going so deep into the desert, that any failure of my equipment could cost me my life.
-- Evan Tanner -
I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
-- Faraaz Kazi -
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand -
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
-- Frank Herbert -
The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.
-- Frank Waters -
They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
-- Gamal Abdel Nasser -
No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.
-- George Q. Cannon -
If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.
-- George Stroumboulopoulos -
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
-- George Washington -
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but that he sometimes causes his power to be felt in the gloomy recesses of forests, among the most bleak and rugged mountains, and in the dreary caves of a desert.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio -
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
-- Gloria Swanson -
New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
-- Harry Hershfield -
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.
-- Haruki Murakami -
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
-- Henri Nouwen -
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.
-- Hod Lipson -
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Capt. Renault: What on Earth brought you to Casablanca? Rick Blaine: My health, I came to Casablanca for the waters. Capt. Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert! Rick Blaine: I was misinformed.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it ...
-- Isabel Burton -
The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.
-- Israel Shenker -
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.
-- J.M.G. Le Clézio -
Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.
-- James Lovelock -
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
-- James M. Barrie -
Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.
-- Jane Porter -
I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.
-- Jean Giono -
Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
-- Jim Fowler -
Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.
-- Jim George -
Impious! forbear thus the first general hail. To disappoint, Increase and multiply, To shed thy blossoms thro' the desert air, And sow thy perish'd offspring in the winds.
-- John Armstrong -
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.
-- John Carmack -
The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!
-- John Dryden -
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 that turn to desert.
-- John F. Kerry -
Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.
-- John Milton -
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
-- Jon Krakauer -
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)
-- Jonathan Stroud -
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.
-- Joseph Fort Newton -
Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.
-- Joshua Homme -
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!
-- Kabir -
With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.
-- Karl Jaspers
