Time Quote by Elaine Pagels

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death…

— Carl Sagan

“The abyss above him shone with unflickering stars. One of the dots of light was Earth. He didn’t know which one.”

— James S.A. Corey

“A diet of rations etched his figure, and the sea air and sun peeled back a layer of his essence...It's as if he's passed…

— Adam McOmber

“For many feverish years he was burdened with the sensation, an ancient one to be sure, that the incredible sprawl of human history was…

— Thomas Ligotti

Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of…

— Victor Hugo

“Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to…

— Ovid

“There was no life in the Abyss, save that which was incorporated in me," it tolled. "Nor was there light, nor motion, nor any…

— Robert E. Howard

“And he told stories about the stars above, about the earth below. He told them to make the night pass, and also because his…

— Jean Giono

“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least one of…

— Stephen A. Reger

“He walked on down the dark, empty street. Suddenly an idea came to him. Immediately, with his whole being, he knew it was true.…

— Vasily Grossman

“For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and…

— Ernest Hemingway