Top 100 In The Desert Quotes
#1. In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. - Sufi proverb
Margaret Atwood
#2. I would rather that my bones had been left to bleach in the desert than have yielded an inch of ground I had gained at so much expense and trouble.
Charles Sturt
#3. I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.
Mark Hoppus
#4. He'd lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home.
Tony Taylor
#5. It is you I have been able to love, you alone in all the world. You can have no idea of what that means. It means a spring in the desert, a blossoming tree in the wilderness.
Hermann Hesse
#6. Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.
William Moulton Marston
#7. We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will all perish in the desert.
Thomas Berry
#8. To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.
Nicole Krauss
#9. Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.
Tim Cope
#10. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
Thor Heyerdahl
#11. The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.
Robert Duncan
#12. In the desert, success is the understanding of limits. One false move and you die. You can't talk your way out of thirst. Bare skin burns. Face-to-face with a spitting rattlesnake, the only thing you have to negotiate is your escape. There are rules in the desert. Pay attention. Adapt or parish.
Terry Tempest Williams
#13. Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word.
Andrea Levy
#14. He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
Li Bai
#15. Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.
Jan Brewer
#16. Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion's den. Jonah prayed in a fish's stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross.
Jared Brock
#17. The thing about America - it's different everywhere, but visually, it's amazing to shoot in the desert in the New Mexico light. It's really hard to shoot in that desert and make anything look not amazing.
Lenny Abrahamson
#18. My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.
Nicolas Cage
#19. Destiny always has definite plans for everyone and they get reveled at the right time. There is a divine purpose in everyone's life but as human beings, we tend to deviate from His plans, getting over confident in our own abilities....
From A Tulip in the Desert.
Shrruti Patole Clarence
#20. For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
Hannah Arendt
#21. 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
#22. The Grand Canyon is carven deep by the master hand; it is the gulf of silence, widened in the desert; it is all time inscribing the naked rock; it is the book of earth.
Donald C. Peattie
#23. I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
Dave Eggers
#24. 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
#25. Knowledge tossed away," she said, shivering a little in the desert chill. "Willful ignorance in the face of something we might have to work to understand." At
Richard K. Morgan
#26. All women begin as a bundle of bones lost somewhere in the desert. A few of us - the lucky ones - will live to howl the songs of our souls from the depths of our wild, wild hearts.
Vanessa Runs
#27. It's no wonder most religions are born in the desert, because when men lay beneath that boundless night sky and look up at the infinite expanse of creation they have an uncontrollable urge to put something in the way .
Terry Pratchett
#28. I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
Ella Maillart
#29. Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.
Mike Bond
#30. Humidity did terrible things to me. I'd be much prettier if I lived in the desert.
Kim Harrington
#31. The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.
Joanne Harris
#32. There, in the desert, there's hunger, thirst, prostrations - and God. Here there's food, wine, women - and God. Everywhere God. So, why go look for him in the desert?
Nikos Kazantzakis
#34. I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.
Daniel Tosh
#35. If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too are living systems, and each of us have unique environments, needs, and conditions within which we flourish or wither?
Dawna Markova
#36. Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.
Sting
#37. In the desert I often whisper. Junipers are excellent sounding boards. They have been shaped by wing. Rocks seem to care nothing about what I say, yet when I speak to them, they feel porous, capable of receiving my words and taking them in as part of their history of brokenness.
Terry Tempest Williams
#38. Do not allow a trivial misunderstanding to wither the blossoms of spring, which, once put forth and blighted, cannot be renewed ... The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.
Charles Dickens
#39. So I'm explaining intrinsic value to my 4 year old daughter - who loves toy cats - and ask her, if she was really thirsty in the desert, whether she would like a bottle of water, or a toy cat, and she tells me that she would like a bottle of water in the shape of a toy cat.
Unarguable.
Stefan Molyneux
#40. The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
Hannah Simone
#41. In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.
Craig Childs
#42. It was a machine-gun orgasm, dark chocolate, spring water in the desert, a hallelujah chorus and the cavelry coming to the rescue all at once.
Christopher Moore
#43. When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
Zach Weinersmith
#44. He hoped these students would learn how to be at home in the desert, not how to conquer it; and he hoped that, in the process, they might discover the spiritual value of quietude.
David Quammen
#45. If you added it up, without her there was nothing
but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.
(from the novella, Revenge)
Jim Harrison
#46. They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
#47. As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.
Gabriel Zaid
#48. I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
Naguib Mahfouz
#49. All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
J. A. Spender
#50. Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Larry Harvey
#51. In the desert there is everything and nothing-- God without mankind.
Honore De Balzac
#52. If you concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. You'll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens ... Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living right now.
Paulo Coelho
#53. I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.
Lucy Christopher
#54. Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. "It's a little lonely in the desert ... " "It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#55. My witness is the empty sky.
My reward is the perfect blue sky at dawn in the desert in a bird-resounding riverbottom grove.
Jack Kerouac
#56. If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.
St. Jerome
#57. I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever.
Cormac McCarthy
#58. 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
#59. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
Denis Johnson
#60. Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
Gene Fowler
#61. We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#62. In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
Michael Ondaatje
#63. Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses
Jerry Bridges
#64. Perhaps, she thought, that's what love does. It's not there to make you feel special. It's to make you brave. It was like a ration pack in the desert, she thought, like a box of matches in a dark wood. Love and courage, thought Sophie - two words for the same thing.
Katherine Rundell
#65. And when we kissed in the desert, maybe it started for the wrong reasons ... but it ended with the right ones.
Brynna Gabrielson
#67. When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope ...
Rumi
#68. And sometimes a dust storm would stand off in the desert, towering so high it was like another city
a terrifying new era approaching, blurring our dreams.
Denis Johnson
#69. A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen.
Marmaduke William Pickthall
#70. I didn't grow up in the ocean
as a matter of fact
near the ocean
I grew up in the desert. Therefore, it was a pleasant contrast to see the ocean. And I particularly like it when I'm fishing.
George W. Bush
#71. The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward.
Klaus Lackner
#72. No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.
Arthur Erickson
#73. So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
Anna Godbersen
#74. The sky was the yellow color of old cheese and the clouds flew across it, as if they had seen something horrifying in the desert wastes where they had so lately been.
Stephen King
#75. So, you are happy to be a pigeon?"
"Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense of the other creatures that dwell in the desert.
Geraldine Brooks
#76. Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
Margaret Atwood
#77. At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.
Mohammed Dib
#78. I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
Charles De Lint
#79. But then, you see the cracks in the system. You begin to question. You realize that some of the answers you spent your young life memorizing were simply wrong.You realize that those who had promised to lead you to Jesus had left you stranded in the desert instead (Relevant Magazine).
Micah J. Murray
#80. He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me,
Alice Hoffman
#81. There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.
Craig Childs
#82. I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
Keith Stanfield
#83. Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.
Toni Collette
#84. If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.
John F. Kerry
#85. I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.
Pablo Neruda
#86. Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation
again. "It is a little lonely in the desert ... "
"It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#87. Now he was the Carswell Thorne who had given her strength in the desert. Who had come for her when she was kidnapped. Who had kissed her when hope was lost and death was imminent. Thorne
Marissa Meyer
#88. The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.
Billy Graham
#89. They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I
Joe Abercrombie
#90. Jews don't camp ... The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.
Daniel Silva
#91. I picked up a piece of quartz I found in the desert one afternoon and held it up to the light, letting it glitter in my palm.Hey, I couldn't help it. I liked shiny things; it was in my blood.
Julie Kagawa
#92. Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert,for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of lack of ability or lack of ambition.I am not deficient in either of these qualities!
Og Mandino
#93. The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.
Robert Charles Wilson
#94. When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too ... I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#95. In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
Edith Wharton
#96. Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.
Floriano Martins
#97. You build a city in the desert, water it with false hopes and false idols, and eventually this is what happens. The desert reclaims it, turns it arid, leaves it barren. Human tumbleweeds drift across its streets, predators hide in the rocks.
Michael Connelly
#98. A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.
Joe Abercrombie
#99. It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!
Rosita Forbes
#100. My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
Edward Abbey
