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I'd die within minutes in that hellish waste. Forget it.
Indy, upon being instructed to walk into the Algerian desert, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Pearl: It'll be safer if you stand up and walk.
Steven: (crawling) You... don't understand. This... is how... you're supposed to act in the desert.

Fergy: (crawling) I'm not gonna make it... Chocolate... CHOCOLATE...
Paulie: Don't you mean "water, water"?
Fergy: I said I'm not gonna make it! You think I want water for my last meal??
Viva PiƱata, "Slayin' Em at the Sands"

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
— excerpt from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

The desert known as the Roba el Khaliyeh is a lover of the dead and a hater of all things that have life. The creatures that dwell in the desiccated wastes of this Empty Space imitate the dead in all possible ways, and thereby steal life from the dryness.
Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred, by Donald Tyson

My country lay within a vast desert. When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world. And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes. No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... death.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

I said I shall not harm them. And I shall not. But Arrakis is Arrakis and the desert takes the weak. My desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, Dune (2021)

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