Desert Quotes - page 3

Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil. (Golda Meir)
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. View quote
Mary Oliver
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. View quote
Stendhal
She gave me a wide-eyed, innocent smile that looked as out of place on her as it would have on a desert scorpion. View quote
George Alec Effinger
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk! View quote
Abu Nuwas
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. View quote
Lord Byron
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. View quote
Lord Byron
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. View quote
Anton Chekhov
There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the cold grave, under the deep, deep sea, Or in the wide desert where no life is found. View quote
Thomas Hood
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)
I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz. that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. View quote
John D. Carmack
Sweet it is to lay aside the weight of the body and to soar into the pure bright ether. Do you dread poverty? Christ calls the poor blessed. (Luke 6:20) Does toil frighten you? No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. Are you anxious as regards food? Faith fears no famine. Do you dread the bare ground for limbs wasted with fasting? The Lord lies there beside you. Do you recoil from an unwashed head and uncombed hair? Christ is your true head. Does the boundless solitude of the desert terrify you? In the spirit you may walk always in paradise. Do but turn your thoughts there and you will be no more in the desert. View quote
Jerome
In the relics of the saints the Lord Christ has provided us with saving fountains which in many ways pour out benefactions and gush with fragrant ointment. And let no one disbelieve. For, if by the will of God water poured out of the precipitous living rock in the desert, and for the thirsty Sampson from the jawbone of an ass, is it unbelievable that fragrant ointment should flow from the relics of the martyrs? Certainly not, at least for such as know the power of God and the honor which the saints have from Him. View quote
John of Damascus
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand. View quote
Pierre Loti
The pyramid once passed there was still a short way to go before we confronted the Sphinx, in the middle of what our contemporaries have left him of his desert. View quote
Pierre Loti
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four. View quote
Hanan al-Shaykh
Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." -The law of Badger Lords. View quote
Brian Jacques
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down. (Guy Gavriel Kay)
To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can! View quote
Gertrude Bell
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. View quote
Deb Caletti
I went into the desert to forget about you. But the sand was the color of your hair. The desert sky was the color of your eyes. There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
I know I cannot paint a flower. I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe