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A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.
— C.S. Lewis
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
— Franz Kafka
This island is a hard place to survive and I fear that it has made everything resistant to the cruel hand of death.
— Jennifer Arnett
Pat's been deserted -- have you heard that, darling? Do you think she'll take the veil or cocaine or something?
— Radclyffe Hall
The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He needs a purpose, even if it kills him.
— Jennifer Arnett
My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.
— Joel Kinnaman
He didn't like the way things were going.
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn. — Stephen King
There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats fluttering in the dark loft of a deserted barn. — Stephen King
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
— Alberto Manguel
Lemme guess," Regin said. "You had your introductory spiel all planned, but rational thought deserted you when you saw me stroll in braless.
— Kresley Cole
The dark sky seemed to swallow the moon, as Samantha stood alone on the deserted highway.
— Grace Willows
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
— Francois Mauriac
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.
— Martha Grimes
Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama
— Taye Diggs
The staircase was deserted - the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them.
— J.G. Ballard
They sat side by side, sad and weary, like shipwrecked sailors on a deserted shore.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
— John Le Carre
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
— Malachy McCourt
Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.
— Cynthia Heimel
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
— Washington Irving
The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.
— Mother Teresa
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
— Anna Held
Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.
— Trishna B. Made It Up Myself
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
— George Bernard Shaw
I could still taste her kiss on my lips as I walked along a deserted Chalk Farm Road at sunrise.
— Charlie Maclean
Maybe they died of disease or lived on this island into old age, but no matter which, someone was the last man standing.
— Jennifer Arnett
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
One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
— George Carlin
I didn't spend my whole summer training with Anwar and him on a deserted island in the Baltic sea to stand here and do nothing.
— Rebekkah Ford
I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
— Babe Paley
Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals.
— William Donaldson
There are few more melancholy sensations than those with which we regard scenes of past pleasure when altered and deserted.
— Walter Scott
when the streets are deserted and a cold rind of moon floats over the canyons of the city.
— Stephen King
More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.
— Denis Thatcher
You know the old bit," he said. "You're on a deserted island. You can have five books. Which do you choose? I never thought I'd actually have to.
— Khaled Hosseini
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
What they say about lawyers being useless isn't entirely true.
— Jennifer Arnett
A friend in danger is not someone who should be deserted. Safety is not always the right path. (Sylvia)
— Patricia Briggs
Your wife has deserted you, but you'll find a new one; whereas, soon my wits will desert me, and for this there is no remedy.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong.
— Anne Frank
As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
— Seneca The Younger
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
— Thomas Malthus
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Our hearts are breaking ... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.
— Alexander Murdoch Mackay
We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;
— Anonymous
But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
— Rachel Cohn
completely deserted.
— Lee Child
The morgue looked deserted, though in fact it was never unattended.
— Jefferson Bass
When angry, a man has deserted his body.
— Publilius Syrus
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
— Charles Dickens
If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.
— William P. Leahy
Ronde, one a live village and the other deserted, as dead as Karnak,
— Ursula K. Le Guin
She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for Escape from a deserted island.
— Kimberly Kinrade
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
— Haruki Murakami
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.
— Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger
Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller.
— Nicholas Samstag
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
— Lionel Blue
I swear to God, every other fucker has flat-out deserted me.
— Rainbow Rowell
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed! — Thomas Moore
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed! — Thomas Moore
I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.
— Bill Ayers
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
I have been abandoned by people I did not want to leave me and I have deserted people who begged me to stay. Yep ... you definitely reap what you sow.
— Joy Marino
My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me?
— Gillian Flynn
I felt civilized.
— Jennifer Arnett
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
— Jane Jacobs