Air Quote by Frank Smythe

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The…

— Wilfred Owen

“I have a friend who feels sometimes that the world is hostile to human life--he says it chills us and kills us. But how…

— Gary Snyder

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this…

— Dante Alighieri

“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms…

— H.P. Lovecraft

Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to…

— Richelle Mead

“Terrible and ancient and scarred with the endless cold of space, the terrible and ancient things glistened with frozen moisture and colors played across…

— Simon Kurt Unsworth

“But Ransom, as time wore on, became aware of another and more spiritual cause for his progressive lightening and exultation of heart. A nightmare,…

— C. S. Lewis

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but an abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of…

— Philip K. Dick

“When the Earth was only about a third of its eventual size, it was probably already beginning to form an atmosphere, mostly of carbon…

— Bill Bryson

You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature…

— Tana French

“We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be something not to be…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford