Top 186 Deserted Quotes & Sayings

One time, I took a woman on a deserted island, and we lived like Mother Nature for 10 days.

Very few people deserted me when I went to prison. They stayed loyal.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

It was very important to my father-in-law that we didn't feel like we deserted our base of voters.

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

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

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

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

It's very unbalanced actually, to be real. Everything's like deserted.

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.

Lots of you know me as a lone, hard-bitten columnist, prone to lurking on deserted rocky promontories while searching for my muse.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

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.

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.

There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

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.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

More people deserted our party and we have never recovered.

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

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

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

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

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.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

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.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

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.

I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

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.

If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

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

I have long had this premonition of a bright day and a deserted house

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.