Cliffs Quote by Ted Hughes

“That impenetrable darkness exudes iron chill, and over the iron breath a hesitant, dark voice can be heard from the depth of the building;…

— Ivan Turgenev

The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb.…

— Stacy Allison

The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.

— Tablo

He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far…

— Nelson Algren

It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing…

— Cormac McCarthy

“To look at him, you’d see a man who might well, if he fell over a cliff, have to stop and ask directions on…

— Terry Pratchett

“No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread.…

— John Steinbeck

“The heights by which great men reach are not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept went toiling upwards through the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The spiral staircase suddenly narrows, swirls like a stream drying up. Can he still get through up there, or is he going to be…

— Georges Rodenbach

“The door of the lighthouse was ajar. They pushed it open and walked into a shuttered twilight. Through an archway on the further side…

— Aldous Huxley

“He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. THe lake lay far below him. A frozen explosion of granite burst in flight to…

— Ayn Rand

Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they…

— J. Frank Dobie