Death Quote by Clark Ashton Smith

“I do not fear the sun darkening my skin. I fear colonialism damaging my self-worth with bleach.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age;…

— Robinson Jeffers

“The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.”

— John Cheever

“the dull old facts of altered climate, vanishing forests, creatures and polar ice. Profitable and poisonous agriculture obliterating biological beauty. Oceans turning to weak…

— Ian McEwan

“it washed over me for the first time in my life just how much importance the world had ascribed to skin pigment, how lately…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Who knows what wonders, what horrors, may have transpired in the dim past, before our race stood erect? Who can guess at the mysteries…

— S.T. Joshi

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

— Brigid Berlin

“The little cloud drifting before their glorious sun will darken the earth as long as I please.”

— Samuel Beckett

When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Clinging to the rags I had left, I gazed out upon the full breadth of the Furnace and shook at what I saw. The…

— Heather Heffner

“Elsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to…

— Muriel Barbery

“Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not…

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing