Abandoned buildings Quote by Georges Bataille

“When the world is storm-driven and the bad that happens and the worse that threatens are so urgent as to shut out everything else…

— David McCullough

“History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on…

— Thomas B. Costain

“This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on…

— Paul J. McAuley

“Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we’ve felt life and all the ambitions and plans on which…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.”

— Soumya V

“The fears of the night shall be washed by the dawn.”

— Timothy Bax

“You become a speck of dust in a breeze, with little you can do to affect your circumstances. When”

— Bobby Adair

“And sometimes a dust storm would stand off in the desert, towering so high it was like another city -- a terrifying new era…

— Denis Johnson

“Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“History didn’t greet us with triumphal fanfares: —it flung dirty sand into our eyes. Ahead of us lay long roads leading nowhere, poisoned wells…

— Wisława Szymborska

“Would you not like to fill up a whole note-book at the street crossings when you see a forger borne along upon the necks…

— Juvenal

“What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life’s emptiness wind than the knowledge?”

— Sorin Cerin