Quotes About The Desert

#1. That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.

Joy Williams

#2. Let not the world deceive thee with its beauty. It is the dream of a dreamer, a mirage of the desert.

Nathan Drake

#3. When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope ...

Rumi

#4. I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.

Terri Windling

#5. What did you say, Gram? About there being no church out here?" "I said that the sky was the roof of my cathedral and the desert was its floor and any time I paid attention, I could feel a higher power all around me.

Terri Farley

#6. New tracks like Las Vegas, hell, you could drive off the end of that track and continue safely 20 miles into the desert. But there's not a day goes by I don't think of Scott [Kalitta]. It's still traumatic.

Connie Kalitta

#7. darting and sparkling under the sun of the desert at full speed, only to go back even faster

Jack Goodwind

#8. The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

Walter Elliot

#9. You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so ...

Michelle Moran

#10. In the desert, the only god is a well.

Vera Nazarian

#11. I don't know anyone around here who would want to cross the desert just to see the Pyramids," said the merchant. "They're just a pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Dubai, with all of its glitz and glamour rose in the heart of the desert.

Soroosh Shahrivar

#13. You get a very different type of education if you go out to the desert, to the places of power, places where it is easy to cross over from one dimensional plane to another, where power hovers, so to speak.

Frederick Lenz

#14. The desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

Michael Ondaatje

#15. Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Victor Hugo

#16. And when we kissed in the desert, maybe it started for the wrong reasons ... but it ended with the right ones.

Brynna Gabrielson

#17. 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

#18. Spread a table in the desert? ... Can he supply meat for his people?' The next two verses

Jerry Bridges

#19. 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

#20. We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#21. For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen.

Virginia Woolf

#22. Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

Gene Fowler

#23. He had eaten as much as a travelling actor and drunk like the sands of the desert Maxence Gilet

Honore De Balzac

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

Golda Meir

#30. It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert.

Julia Child

#31. You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

William Langewiesche

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.

Thomas Pynchon

#35. 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

#36. No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Van Wyck Brooks

#37. Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

Jon Foreman

#38. In the desert there is everything and nothing-- God without mankind.

Honore De Balzac

#39. To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.

Jon Krakauer

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

John Fante

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#47. I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South?

Johnny Knoxville

#48. The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.

Tamora Pierce

#49. The thing about tears is that they can be as quiet as a cloud floating across the desert sky.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#50. Here is the desert of silence,
Blinking and blind in the sun--
An old, old woman who mumbles her beads
And crumbles to stone.

Alice Corbin Henderson

#51. The good citizen when he opens his door in the evening must be banker, golfer, husband, father; not a nomad wandering the desert, a mystic staring at the sky, a debauchee in the slums of San Francisco, a soldier heading a revolution, a pariah howling with skepticism and solitude.

Virginia Woolf

#52. 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

#53. On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.

Chaim Weizmann

#54. Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

John Keble

#55. The desert, when the sun comes up ... I couldn't tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began.

Tom Hanks

#56. 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

#57. Moses dragged us through the desert to the one place in the Middle East where there is no oil.

Golda Meir

#58. When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.

Zach Weinersmith

#59. 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

#60. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert needed ABBA to invent gay Australians. The

Chuck Klosterman

#61. The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

T.E. Lawrence

#62. When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.

Isaac Asimov

#63. Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

Mike Bond

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Jean Baudrillard

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Thirst had driven him into the desert again,

H.P. Lovecraft

#71. Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

Sting

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. We are an oasis in the desert, beautiful but doomed!

Clifford Lafrenier

#75. 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

#76. The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.

Joanne Harris

#77. Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth.

Peter Julian Eymard

#78. There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

Robin McKinley

#79. Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Stephen King

#80. I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.

Edward Abbey

#81. Humidity did terrible things to me. I'd be much prettier if I lived in the desert.

Kim Harrington

#82. 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

#83. In other words Jesus went into the desert to confront His enemy and throw down the gauntlet. He would prove Himself to be the legitimate shepherd of Israel by overcoming the temptations that had undone all of Israel's previous kings, including His mighty ancestor, King David.

Charles R. Swindoll

#84. The desert wasn't mappable. It ate map-makers.

Terry Pratchett

#85. I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.

Roy Chapman Andrews

#86. But the desert offers something that no forest brook or valley ever can: distance. A

Joe Hill

#87. I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

Byron Katie

#88. But out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#89. Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

Benjamin Disraeli

#90. Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

Tim Cope

#91. 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

#92. The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

Robert Duncan

#93. There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

Andre Maurois

#94. 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

#95. The desert adapts. The people adapt. Live. Die. Struggle. Suffer. Create. The people in the real world beyond Demesne's ring are not all manufactured perfection. They deal.

Rachel Cohn

#96. People say the desert is desolate. Yet for me it's very much alive, full of surprises. As soon as I see those wide-open spaces, I can breathe,

Anneli Rufus

#97. Anything less than the desert was a dream.

Kameron Hurley

#98. Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded.

Jan Brewer

#99. I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

#100. He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

Li Bai