A Quote by Peter Wessel Zapffe

For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

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Desert Desert Island Deserted Island Me Neither Planet Tragedy

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Peter Wessel Zapffe
Norwegian - Philosopher
December 18, 1899 - October 12, 1990

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

John Lydon

Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.

Margaret Atwood

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

Henry Vollam Morton

If I was stuck on a deserted island, I would have guacamole.

Jenna Johnson

When I was doing Dobie Gillis, I got blasted off to the moon with a chimp in a rocket, and I landed on a deserted tropic island. That should have told me something was coming.

Bob Denver

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all.

Stephen Hawking

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

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

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

Franz Kafka

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

Simon Cowell

I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

John Carmack

Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

Gary Vaynerchuk

One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.