Quotes About Quakes

One does not go back to reconquer the myth, one encounters it anew, when time quakes at its foundations under the empire of extreme danger.

Nature isn't still. Nature is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, just like the rest of us. It's winds and floods and rain and quakes. A huge part of human history is about us just trying to survive the speed of nature.

And may sapphires, amethysts and emeralds spill into the dark eroticism of abundant life: because in my darkness quakes at last the great topaz. I am now listening to a sylvan music, almost just drumming and rhythm that comes from a neighboring house where young junkies live the present. Another instant of incessant, incessant rhythm, and something terrible happens to me.