Deserted

Famous quotes containing the word deserted:

“One man walking a deserted platform;
Dawn coming, and rain
Driving across a darkening autumn....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“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)

“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)