Desert Quotes

If you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert!

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.

They are again in the dirt in the desert.

In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment.

Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.

A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

He wanders, like a day-appearing dream, Through the dim wildernesses of the mind; Through desert woods and tracts, which seem Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.

A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.

In a virtuous action, I properly am; in a virtuous act, I add to the world; I plant into deserts conquered from Chaos and Nothing, and see the darkness receding on the limits of the horizon.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody, we're a figment of their imagination.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

I was praying that you and me might end up together. It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert, but I'm holding you closer than most, 'cause you are my heaven.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire.

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.

Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

The idea of being in the desert is fundamental, but it's totally relative, and it's about that membrane: the way that one defines self versus the environment.

In the early days of the Mormon Church, stewardship toward the land was a priority. It was a matter of survival in the desert.

If I were stranded on a desert island, the one book I would have with me would is the Bible. There are enough stories in the Bible to keep you engaged for years.

It [our best show] was this year, the 7th of January in Eilat, Israel; 6,000 people in the desert going absolutely mad!

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others.

True understanding lies beyond the desert

I'd run my whole life long to reach you

But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself. And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?