“I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose garlands dead / And all but he departed!”
Thomas Moore
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”
C.S. Lewis
“Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted”
Seneca
“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”
Washington Irving
“Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.”
George Bernard Shaw
“One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like”
George Carlin
“From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
