Desert Quotes Quotes

“Hell must look very beautiful to find customers for itself, and deserts do precisely this!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We passed the great arid deserts of the West, driving through canyons and beneath rocky outcroppings and over great crevasses. We drove through the Mojave Desert, Owens Valley and Death Valley, and the dust entered our bloodstream and flowed through to every part of our body. The West was both eerie and breathtakingly beautiful, and we wanted to live there forever.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“If you want to know what surrealism means, watch the camel caravans traveling in the desert under the moonlight!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A river is an ocean in a desert.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don't tell the camel about the desert! Save your breath! Be born in the desert! Live in the desert! Only then can you speak to the camel about the desert!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Confronted with the desert's boundless emptiness, my sense of loneliness shrank down to the point of irrelevance. My sense of self shrank down to the point of irrelevance. To comprehend one's own smallness may for most people be a terrifying experience, but I found it comforting.”
― Summer Shultz, Stuck Wide Open

“The desert is too quiet place for our thoughts.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“At long last we have arrived... In the land of the lost, where we all belong.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“The most beautiful place where reality seems completely unreal is a desert oasis!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Inspiration finds me when the night is still and the stars appear in the desert sky.”
― Nancy B. Urbach

“Below, the ​land, the pale dunes, the black mountains shaped like spears, like towers, like fortresses. On the horizon one volcano pouring its crimson plume into the air, fierce, uncompromising, and real. A wild land, a cruel land, a land to catch you out, bury you in sandstorm, broil you under the sun, freeze you under the stars, dehydrate and suffocate you in the heat with its low oxygen count. A land to thrill and humble you in that single unit after the rains, when all the barren sand is bright with green, and ferns spring toward the mountains and cover their flanks like a rolling ancient sea.”
― Tanith Lee, Biting the Sun

“Don't make yourself funny looking for mystery in the desert because everything is already mysterious in the desert!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Amidst life's storms, a delicious brownie brings the sweet solace of happiness to even the lowest of days.”
― Priyanshi Ranawat

“A night spent in the desert means a night spent in the space!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Somehow one feels unfettered by any of the harsh, restricting influences of human existence as we live it these days. There are no buildings, no roads, no street lights, no artificial or even natural noises, no hustle and bustle, no need for anyone to shout or to have money or to pretend about anything; those human beings who are with you are probably fairly well known to you, and are there for the same reason that you are—they know the dangers and delights of solitude just the same as you do, and they will react to the unblemished and staggering loveliness of a huge expanse of desert sky, deep blue by day and of a marvellous purple at night sprinkled haphazardly with hundreds and thousands of stars silently lighting up that great canopy of night-time that drifts down with the close of day. I personally think I know of nothing more restorative than lying on the soft sand—cool now after the retirement of the day’s sun— and just staring at the miracle of such a sky. And then you fall asleep, rolled up in a sleeping bag against the considerable fall in temperature as the night goes on, perhaps waking an hour or two before dawn for just long enough to notice that those little stars are still there—as bright as ever—and do not even look as though they are getting ready to be extinguished by the advent of another day. It is a lovely, comforting feeling when the world around you is quite still; and there is no sound anywhere to penetrate the delightful peace that surrounds you. When the dawn comes, and the stars have all gone away, there is something sharp and exhilarating about the smell in the air. It is fresh and clean and tantalisingly different to the atmosphere which will pervade the day once the sun has come up over the distant horizon. Then there will be no escape from its merciless and desiccating heat, which drains you of energy and leaves you burned and incapable of any prolonged activity. And the bright reflection of the sun off the light-coloured sand can be piercing and painful to the eyes. There is probably not even a tiny breeze to move that sullen, sultry air, and there can be no relief from its effects until once more, and inevitably, the great ball of fire that is the sun will slide slowly below the land and allow it to grow cool. It would be foolish to pretend that all of those who served with the LRDG saw the desert in the way that I have described it, all or even much of the time. But I am quite sure that when their minds were not diverted by rather more pressing considerations concerning the enemy, there were few who were not moved by the beauty of the sky at night. They all spent quite a number of hours on sentry duty, when, alone with his thoughts and in such surroundings, no man can be oblivious of such a miraculous revelation.”
― David Lloyd Owen, The Long Range Desert Group, 1940–1945: Providence Their Guide

“The shadows of the deserts are so magical that we completely forget the owners of the shadows!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Terror is the only shade in desert.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“Desert wears many faces, yet He has none.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“Every man is a shelter for himself in the desert.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“The desert is a purgatory for man, and a watering place for Death.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Miraž

“You can only understand the uselessness of money if you find yourself in a desert with a handful of a bag of money. You will starve to death.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“He loved to lie there, swaddled in blankets, looking up at the sky streaked with stars. He could almost feel the earth tip and spin, or perhaps, he thought, it is me that is spinning. The sky stretched vast overhead, the stars so clear in the desert night that he felt as if they watched over him and he wanted to stay in the desert forever.”
― Laura McVeigh, Lenny

“If you build a road in the desert and then leave it to its fate, the desert sands will swallow that road! The same thing happens in life, if you don't protect the things you've built, life will swallow them!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As day turns into night in the desert, the dreadful hell gives way to majestic space!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Shadows love sunsets the most, and of all sunsets, they love sunsets in the desert the most!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Yes, man can get used to living in the desert, but what feeds his soul is to live in a wooded place, in the forests!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Dude, look up at the sky in a desert to make you realize how ridiculous a lot of things you do in life are! Yes, there is something amazing beyond your little daily troubles, focus there, and give your time and attention to real issues like existence!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Don't get too caught up in the magic of the desert, you'll get burned! You should experience the beauties of hell in moderation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Pay no attention to all the things of old;
He made a way in deserts providing me springs. I am chosen to receive these streams of gold.”
― Cali Willette, Fractures of Gold

“The flexibility of the mind is like an oasis in the desert, creating miraculous salvation in a desperate situation where there is no hope of salvation!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan