Famous quotes containing the words deserted and/or village:
“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)
“But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)