Context Quote by Ted Chiang

“Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why…

— William Faulkner

“Epochs later, the curtains grew dusty and brittle, the deep, vicious colour of a bruise. The floorboards creaked and we were civilized. We were…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“I walked far down a dirt side road and into a farmer's field - some sort of cereal that was chest high and corn…

— Douglas Coupland

“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned…

— Theodore Roethke

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

“He felt the ground frail as a bird’s skull under his feet, a mere shell of sanity and decorum between him and the dark…

— Sylvia Plath

“Then came upon a world in ruins an anxious youth. The children were drops of burning blood which had inundated the earth; they were…

— Alfred De Musset

“Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and looked up and saw jackpines in the…

— Jack Kerouac

“The mountains of madness have many little plateaux of sanity.”

— Terry Pratchett

“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”

— Jessie Douglas Kerruish

“On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who knew they…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“These people came into the world and left it bound to their soil, proliferating on their own dung-hills with slow deliberation like the uncomplicated…

— Émile Zola