quotations about the desert
In the desert, the only god is a well.
VERA NAZARIAN
Dreams of the Compass Rose
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.
LORD BYRON
Stanzas to Augusta
A desert is what you think it is.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Small Gods
The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the cloudless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness.
JAMES CARLOS BLAKE
The Rules of Wolfe
All sunshine makes a desert.
AMERICAN PROVERB
The desert is like that ... you think thoughts you haven't thought before and you feel feelings that you've always believed are someone else's feelings.
KATJA RUDOLPH
Little Bastards in Springtime
I'll be the madness that carries you away
I'll be the sadness to light your darkest day
I'll be the desert island where you can be free
I'll be the vulture you can catch and eat
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS
"Desert Island", Holiday
I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: the desert of the real itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Simulacra and Simulation
A child of the desert is like a vine in the wilderness, spreading its leafy tendrils in profusion; although, in comparison to the same plant cultivated and pruned, it yields but a scanty vintage, it is more beautiful, hanging in flowing ringlets on the on the heads of forest trees, than clipped and confined to hedge-stakes.
EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY
Adventures of a Younger Son
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain.
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.
DEWEY BUNNELL
"A Horse with No Name"
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
PIERRE LOTI
Egypt
This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief--like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.
EDWARD ABBEY
Desert Solitaire
I never meet her in the city
But believe me she is pretty
Six-hundred-fifty miles away
I meet my angel in the desert
In the desert I can meet her
Oh in the desert heat she makes me play
YELLO
"Desert Inn"
There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Small Gods
The desert is like the sea. It has no grave. The wind and the flies will bury him in the air.
ADAMU KYUKA USMAN
The Disappointed Three
Deserts are the most exacting of all known environments, and they compel their inhabitants with profound imperiousness to knuckle under to their prejudices and preconceptions in ten thousand particulars.
GRANT ALLEN
Falling in Love with Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
Now I been out in the desert, just doin' my time.
Searchin' through the dust, lookin' for a sign.
If there's a light up ahead well brother I don't know.
But I got this fever burnin' in my soul.
So let's take the good times as they go,
And I'll meet you further on up the road.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"Further On (Up the Road)", The Rising
Encounters between strangers in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion, and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.
WALTER M. MILLER, JR.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.
PABLO NERUDA
"Ode to Salt"