Centre Quote by Herman Melville

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and…

— Cormac McCarthy

“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement.…

— Thomas Hardy

“The clock struck the solemn hour of one, that hour when fancy stalks outside reason, and malignant possibilities stand rock-firm as facts.”

— Thomas Hardy

“You have never seen the sun set at this height. Come, look.’ The puller went to the edge and sat down, his legs hanging…

— Ted Chiang

“Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes…

— Thomas Hardy

For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a…

— Louis J. Halle

“There's a legend about that clock. For a second, when it chimes the hour, the gates to Heaven open.”

— Cassandra Clare

In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

— Johanna Spyri

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea…

— Anonymous