City-on-fire Quote by Garth Risk Hallberg

“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.”

— Carla H Krueger

“You think the sun rises over his left shoulder, but he's only standing there to eclipse the light.”

— Ann Redisch Stampler

“The sun was hot on his back, but he barely noticed. It paled by comparison to the warmth that was seeping into his soul.”

— Heather Burch

“On another occasion, he stared at the Sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his…

— Bill Bryson

“Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him off to sleep again.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to the earth.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

“I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never…

— Joseph Conrad

“I'd said it because I couldn't look directly at the sun and not remark that it was blinding and brilliant.”

— R.K. Lilley

“Wasn't loving him like loving the sun, so beautiful and warm, essential to light but deadly if you got too close?”

— Jennifer Armintrout

“Science...how beautiful science was - that it was one of the proofs of God's presence. All that order out of chaos.”

— Jim Kelly

“However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was…

— Clive Barker

“Light forces us to look up to the Sun.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo