Is there anything more vast than a desert? If you are looking for the most comprehensive list of desert captions for Instagram then you are in the right place! I have put together over 100 desert captions, from inspirational quotes, to short messages to help you find the perfect caption for your desert photos.
No two deserts are ever the same and each desert photo deserves its own special caption. Whether you are in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Australia, Dubai, the United States, or any of the other deserts around the world, you will find plenty of ideas and the perfect fit for your message!
Best Desert Captions for Instagram
What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. – Edward Abbey
The desert tells a different story every time one ventures onto it – Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. – Antoine de St. Exupery
A beautiful thing is never perfect. – Egyptian proverb
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Life is DRY as a desert lest you find the oasis of Love – Soulful Tanu Vermani
Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt. – John Muir
Once a year, go someplace you have never been before – Dalai Lama
To travel is to live.
Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart – Confucious
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
My favorite thing is to go where I have never been – Diane Arbus
Sunset is still my favorite color and rainbow is second – Mattie Stepenek
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traveling, it makes your speechless and then turns you into a storyteller -Erol Ozan
Some beautiful paths cannot be discovered without getting lost – Erol Ozan
Normal is boring.
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page – Saint Augustine
She created a life she loved.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams! – Oprah Winfrey
Inspirational Desert Instagram Captions
If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere – Matshona Dhliwayo
Seek peacefully, you will find. – Egyptian Proverb
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And when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about going forward – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Travel makes on modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world – Gustave Flaubert
Life is always like a desert. You’ll either find an oasis or will end up in a mirage while finding one – Surimal Kundu
The desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. – Tom Hanks
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Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul. – Edward Counsel
You can’t fight the desert. You have to ride with it. – Lous L’Amour
But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – where you can find yourself – Father Dioscuros
The desert is a natural extension of inner silence of the body – Jean Baudrillar
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page – Saint Augustine
The desert, when the sun comes up. I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the Earth began. -Tom Hanks
All you have to do is contemplate a simple grain of sand, and you will see in it, all the marvels of creation. – Paulo Coelho
The desert is so huge, and the horizon so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent – Paulo Coelho
The desert tells a different story, every time one ventures into it – Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
We all have our own deserts. That may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find a purpose in life and be free. – Yeonmi Park
I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space – Robyn Davidson
A rose in the desert can only survive on its strength, not its beauty – Matchona Dhliwayo
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. – T. E. Lawrence
Traveling, it makes your speechless and then turns you into a storyteller -Erol Ozan
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Travel … The best way to be lost… And found… At the same time. – Brenna Smith
A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome. – Matshona Dhilwayo
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. – Joyce Carol Oates
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I knew I was a grain of sand in the vast desert that never ended and he was a sparkling star in the sky. – Aleena Yasin
She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in. – John Mark Green
Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it’s full of life, it’s full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it’s complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God. – Paulo Coelho
It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself. – Jean Klein
Desert, in general, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself. – Maynard James Keenan
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. – John Steinbeck
Short Desert Captions
A desert is a place without expectation – Nadine Gordimer
Sunshine all the time makes a desert. – Arab Proverb
I’m standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in. – Sheryl Crow
To travel is to live
Take only memories, leave only footprints
Your wings already exist, all you have to do is fly.
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Funny Desert Captions, Puns and Jokes
What did the camel say to the Oasis? I’ll never desert you.
When the camel saw the sick sand, he asked, “How are you dune?”
Life is like a camel, you can make it do anything but back up – Marcelene Cox
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink – Joe E Lewis
The weird guy brought a car door to the desert. He thought he could wind the window down if it gets too warm
If a pig gets hot in a dessert it shouts, “I’m bacon out here.”
The desert sun is brilliant. It has over five thousand degrees!
You can never starve in a desert because of all the sand which is present in it.
When a camel needs to hide in the desert, they usually camel-flage themselves.
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And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. – Randy Komisar
The last quote above is my absolute favorite and what this website is all about. So many times we think we have so much time, but the future is not guaranteed. I hope you read that quote a few times and let it sink in. Tomorrow is never promised. Do not put off that trip or not bother snapping that photo! Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) and get out there! If you read more posts on this site, I promise I will make it as easy as possible!
I hope these desert Instagram captions have given you plenty of ideas for your photos. You can use these quotes on Instagram, Facebook, or when making photo books to share your memories. Did you wake up in the desert? Maybe in Jordan’s desert? (I know we all wish!) Well, if you did, you can also check out these good morning captions for the morning photos with your cup of coffee in hand and these perfect camping captions for your bucket list desert camping trip!
Many deserts come with stunning mountain landscapes. Use these mountain captions in your photos as well!
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Lindsay Nieminen hails from Vancouver, Canada and shares her love of travel on this website. She is passionate about showing others that they should not put off traveling the world just because they have young children or are single parents. She aims to encourage them to seek out adventure, whether it is at home or abroad by providing information on how just about everywhere can be a destination to explore as a family.