“The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide …”

— Friedrich Nietzsche , book Dionysian-Dithyrambs

Dionysian-Dithyrambs (1888)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Oct. 1, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide …" by Friedrich Nietzsche?

Friedrich Nietzsche 655

German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

Related quotes

“What makes the desert beautiful is that it hides, somewhere, a well.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book The Little Prince

Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...
Le Petit Prince (1943)

“You neglect and belittle the desert.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Choruses from The Rock (1934)

“Is it Chomsky’s intellectual competence which deserts him when he criticizes the powerful, or is it the willingness of Chomsky’s critics to perceive that competence which deserts them?”

David Edwards (1962) british journalist, born 1962

Source: Burning All Illusions (1996), p. 6

“The desert is not an island: the island is not enchanted: and the desert is no habitation for men.”

Peter Levi (1931–2000) writer, archaeologist, sometime Jesuit priest

"To speak about the soul"

“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters

Character of Pulteney; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: You neglect and belittle the desert.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.