I hope there may be bogs and that John McKenzie may drown…

When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up…

— Susanna Clarke

He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It…

— Susanna Clarke

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

— John Milton

A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen,…

— Ludwig Buchner

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

— Elizabeth I

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem…

— A. Lee Martinez

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell…

— E. B. White

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of…

— Barbara Hurd

Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

— Bill Watterson

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards,…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance…

— Will Rogers

She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid…

— Nora Roberts

I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things…

— Ozzy Osbourne

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother…

— Mariama Bâ

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,…

— Marya Mannes