Quote by Philip K. Dick

“It is a terrible thing to do to unusual people, to drive them so deeply into themselves that each reemergence is a volcanic explosion.”

— Guntram Vesper

“But I know that the body I inhabit will only take so much, can only go so far. Rocks, stones, even the leaning twisting…

— Eva Figes

“The pyramid is the pillar that holds power aloft. If it wavers,everything collapses.”

— Ismail Kadare

“And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for…

— Dante Alighieri

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

“She hadn’t even known they were volcanic, but now they were lobbing big seminal gobbets of lava all over their lower slopes, like a…

— Lev Grossman

“Many workmen Built a huge ball of masonry Upon a mountain-top. Then they went to the valley below, And turned to behold their work.…

— Stephen Crane

“At first the weight of loss was thrust upon me so harshly I could only take a short breath, just enough to endure the…

— Thanhha Lai

“The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist.”

— Avijeet Das

“...Layers of dirt heaped upon layers of old dirt- under a mountain I can’t breathe or think or react, except to erupt...”

— Steven LaVey

“I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The air is fresher here. Rock walls rise on either side of me. They must be the bowl of the volcano.”

— Gail Carson Levine