Deserted

Famous quotes containing the word deserted:

“Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize!
For the old egg of my desire is broken,”
—Unknown. Sonnet Found in a Deserted Madhouse (l. 1–2)

“There was a deserted log camp here, apparently used the previous winter, with its “hovel” or barn for cattle.... It was a simple and strong fort erected against the cold, and suggested what valiant trencher work had been done there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“It is the vice, but not the excellence of manners, that they are continually being deserted by the character; they are cast- off clothes or shells, claiming the respect which belonged to the living creature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)