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Quotes About Deserted

did not like to be deserted this way. So I tried to walk after them. But my feet would not touch the ground, and I was forced to stay on that pole. It was a lonely life to
~ L. Frank Baum
He could see somebody had thrown Cotton away. Somebody had thrown Jason's angel away.
~ Amy Lane
I dreamed of holding Noah's hand and walking through bright sunshine, waving across the sound to the deserted island. For some reason I thought Vinnie was there.
~ Amy Lane
By the time he arrived each evening at 245 Wall Street—where he typed up that day's documents for a patent lawyer he never saw—the financial district was as deserted as the floor of a factory after the whistle has blown, and men were scurrying home to their own erotic dreams. By the time he left, there was no one abroad but homosexuals and thieves, and it was with these he wandered.
~ Andrew Holleran
Trust is an amazing commodity. The Afghan people often talk to me about having to develop trust in America, because they believe that we deserted them in 1990 and 1991.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
~ Willem Dafoe
If I was stuck on a deserted island, I would have guacamole.
~ Jenna Johnson
I need a jug of wine and a book of poetry, Half a loaf for a bite to eat, Then you and I, seated in a deserted spot, Will have more wealth than a Sultan's realm. – Omar Khayyam
~ Robert Skidelsky
in the huge gaunt ballroom where the palms splintered themselves in the shivering mirrors: leaking through the windows to where the moonlight waited patiently among the deserted public gardens and highways, troubling the uneasy water of the outer harbour
~ Lawrence Durrell
Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.
~ Alexander Murdoch Mackay
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools
~ Alan Paton
o que era bom ficou para trás, muito para trás, e ele passou adiante, sem dar por isso. Ah, é demasiado tarde para voltar; atrás dele aumento o fragor da multidão que o segue, impelida pela mesma ilusão, mas ainda invisível na branca estrada deserta.
~ Dino Buzzati
34 ¡Oh Jerusalén, Jerusalén, que matas a los profetas, y apedreas a los que a ti son enviados! ¿Cuántas veces quise recoger a tus hijos, a la manera que el ave cubre su nidada debajo de sus alas, y tú no has querido? 35 ¡Pueblo ingrato! He aquí que su morada va a quedar desierta. Y les declaro que ya no me verán más, hasta que llegue el día en que digan: Bendito sea el que viene en nombre del Señor. 14
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
When we select a partner, we commit to a story, yet we remain forever curious. What other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peak at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.
~ Esther Perel
When we select a partner, we commit to a story. Yet we remain forever curious: what other stories could we have been part of? Affairs offer us a window into those other lives, a peek at the stranger within. Adultery is often the revenge of the deserted possibilities.
~ Esther Perel
I first saw Walter Hill's second film, 'The Driver,' as a teenager, late at night on the BBC, quite possibly sitting too close to the telly. Given that this 1978 slice of neo-noir takes place almost entirely in the dark streets of a deserted downtown L.A., it's really a perfect midnight movie.
~ Edgar Wright
The kitchen looked like it was rarely used, except for a toaster on a counter surrounded by crumbs
~ Robert Goldsborough
absolute stillness. The highway was deserted. There was no traffic.
~ Lee Child
completely deserted.
~ Lee Child
The apartment was now a ghost:
~ Libba Bray
He had been imprisoned inside the least secure of the residences, and it was deserted at this late hour, as expected.
~ Douglas E. Richards
Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.
~ Dr. Seuss
I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house
~ Anna Akhmatova