Wasteland 3 Quotes

#1. [The Internet,] A Superhighway through the Wasteland?

Mitchell Kapor

#2. Looking out over the expanse ahead I saw not an empty wasteland but something simpler: a blank page on which I would go on.

Paul Kalanithi

#3. But when you're concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like.

Allie Brosh

#4. It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

Alain De Botton

#5. But if there is a hereafter, one my father has been welcomed into, it must be a godless wasteland.

Ellen Hopkins

#6. Even if such beauty wasn't meant to be in a world so fallen as ours, that didn't take away from its beauty. It only made it more beautiful.

Kyle West

#7. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.

Edward Abbey

#8. At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

Thomas Mann

#9. When you don't hear others, you don't imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters.

Rebecca Solnit

#10. Wasteland is land which is worthless
for cultivation. Like a child who has been emotionally
bruised in a way that can never heal.

Pankaj Suneja

#11. For much of American history, the worst classes were seen as extrusions of the worst land: scrubby, barren, and swampy wasteland. Home ownership remains today the measure of social mobility.

Nancy Isenberg

#12. The dead are never still, they exist just beyond the corners of our eye, in the barren wasteland beyond our own phantasmagoria, and we, for the most part, remain oblivious to their plight.

David Brian

#13. New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

Matana Roberts

#14. People have always said since TV was invented what a cultural wasteland it is but I think it is the worst and the best. It is the golden age of television.

Joel McHale

#15. Why play, lounge or labour in a social wasteland? It's toxicity is contagious, and no respecter of persons. Fall back!

T.F. Hodge

#16. In this rural wasteland I feel I am not myself.

Abigail George

#17. Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings.
-Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld)

Frank Herbert

#18. She pivoted right, and sensed the vast, open space of the wasteland stretching before her under the opaque sky, a darkness as thin and final as the velvet lining of a shroud (360-361).

Caragh M. O'Brien

#19. In a wasteland the surface does not represent the actuality of what it is supposed to be representing, and people are living inauthentic lives. "I've never done a thing I wanted to in all my life. I've done as I was told." You know?

Joseph Campbell

#20. She had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

Ayn Rand

#21. The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer ... It's the world of people living inauthentic lives - doing what they are supposed to do.

Joseph Campbell

#22. If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. This is where I live - somewhere between the wasteland and the rain.

Leslie Parrott

#24. One day you will have vengeance, little half-blood. You will stand upon a wasteland littered with your dead kin and you will be free.

Pippa DaCosta

#25. The wasteland grows.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.

Sasha Alexander

#27. There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the nightmares ... heroes in the gutters and in the mirror; saints in the frozen wasteland; fools and liars on the throne of wisdom, and hands reaching out in hunger that will never be filled.

Joan D. Vinge

#28. Guilt is a guide that will lead me whenever I choose to follow. It will raise its righteous banner and take me to the wasteland of my incompetence. Guilt is a voice that will speak whenever i choose to listen. It will mournfully address any subject but one : correcting the mistake.

Hugh Prather

#29. A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

Peter O'Toole

#30. Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created. I guess they figured that by the time the planet was a smoky wasteland, they'd be nice and comfy in heaven, so wotthehell.

Garrison Keillor