Earth Quote by John Milton

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent…

— Sigrid Undset

“She was almost felled to the ground by the extraordinary sight which now met her eyes. There was the garden and some birds. The…

— Virginia Woolf

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.

— Benjamin Franklin

Through her, in microcosm, the wide earth sobbed. The starglobe sank in her; the colours faded. The death-dew rose and the wild birds in…

— Mervyn Peake

“Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.”

— John Burnside

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to…

— Lili Wilkinson

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death-- not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had…

— Dan Wells

“What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable…

— Leo Tolstoy

“She was carrying with her, the cold. She was holding on to that icy stone of grief. It had been there all along, sitting…

— Kali Wallace

“For the Night was never satisfied, so the Earth pulled her down, and her tongue sank into the ground like roots seeking dark sustenance..”

— Arthur Crow