This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.
The high desert has an effect on people. The place has a way of swallowing you up.
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.
Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
[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.
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.
You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence. . .
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.
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.
Going to the Sahara Desert and meeting the Touareg band Tinariwen was a life-changing experience. All through that time, I have just carried on learning and meeting musicians, and I keep finding links between different forms.
They make a desert and call it peace.
Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing. . . Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.
Let each man have according to his deserts.
I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them [ mice]. They are like my naguales [kindred animal spirits]. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.