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Quotes About Deserted

All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are. Our sense of ourselves then becomes a deserted field at nightfall, with sad reeds flanking a boatless river, bright in the darkness growing between the distant shores.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.
~ Joanne Froggatt
The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue. No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries. How foolish.
~ Liz Kessler
We set the table, but no one ate.
~ Johnny Oates
EITHER THE WIND kept them all away or the entire population took to heart the notion that the beaches were closed after Labor Day. In
~ Alice McDermott
The only thing worse than a city full of people is a city with no people at all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.
~ Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
~ Esperanza Spalding
building that served as a cantina and general store. There were no villagers in sight.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
~ Franz Kafka
He feels more deserted with a second person than when alone. If he is together with someone, this second person reaches out for him and he is helplessly delivered into his hand. If he is alone, all mankind reaches out for him – but the innumerable outstretched arms become entangled with one another and no one reaches to him.
~ Franz Kafka
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.
~ Philip Gibbs
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
That night I hardly slept a wink, but turned over and over in my tent; never until then had I felt so alone or so deserted. Perhaps even the elephants are too small, I thought, as I stared into the darkness, and we need a far bigger and more affectionate presence at our side.
~ Romain Gary
Horse-chestnut flowers bobbed like white wax candles above the deserted pavements. An oblique light struck into the street - so that its long and normally profitless perspective seemed to lead straight into the heart of a younger, more ingenuous city - and fell across the fronts of the houses where he had once lived, warming up the rotten brick and imparting to it a not unpleasant pinkish colour.
~ M. John Harrison
Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,Fallen from his high estate,And welt'ring in his blood;Deserted, at his utmost need,By those his former bounty fed,On the bare earth expos'd he lies,With not a friend to close his eyes.
~ John Dryden
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
~ Christopher Columbus
It was midnight when I parked my car under Union Square. A wet wind blew across the almost deserted square, blowing fogged breath from the sea on the dark pavements. Flashing neons on all four sides repudiated the night.
~ Ross MacDonald
A woman with thyroid eyes and chins sat behind the desk in the deserted lobby. She offered me a room with bath for two-fifty, two dollars without. I didn't really want to stay there. The migrant years had flown through the place and left their droppings.
~ Ross MacDonald
The rest of the time Olivia was alone in her big house with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat and dust.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Still, I can't help telling you that lately I've begun to feel deserted. I'm surrounded by too great a void. I never used to give it much thought, since my mind was filled with my friends and having a good time. Now I think either about unhappy things or about myself. It's taken a while, but I've finally realized that Father, no matter how kind he may be, can't take the place of my former world.
~ Anne Frank
Summer Hawthorne was simply more trouble than she was worth. At least as far as anyone with any sense would realize. Unfortunately, Taka's common sense seemed to have deserted him in the last few days.
~ Anne Stuart
Sabes lo que somos? Somos actores torpes representando una obra aburrida en el escenario decrépito de un teatro desierto.
~ Salvador Elizondo
For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.
~ Gustave Flaubert