Desert Quotes

In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear in the least daunted by her abnormality. No, she saw his eyes. He was not daunted in the least.

V.S. Carnes

The field of the soul must be watered by the rain with tears of love; otherwise it will become a desert.

Sorin Cerin

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Paul Hoffman

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

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

Tom Hanks

I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, more soulful beauty and clarity like an oasis in the desert. From that place of clarity, a vision of what I could have, what I could do, who I could be has emerged if I allow my heart to become a place of compassion, acceptance and forgiveness.

Sharon E. Rainey

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her

L.M. Montgomery

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..

Virginia Woolf

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Michael Ondaatje

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Stephen King

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

Stephen King

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

Neil Gaiman

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Terry Pratchett