36 Quotes About Atlas

It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

Darling,who made you believestumbling down the aislewas like marching to your deathon bloodstained knees?How did it ever come to this?You,thinking love to be a monstersent to torch your lungsand make the atlas in your bloodcollapse future lineagesbecause you’re afraid.

In the future . . . if by somemiracle you ever find yourself in the position to fall in love again . . .fall in love with me.

The United States has never been in a united state, it has never been a united state. It never will. Lines on screens and paper do not change that.

All we can do is keep telling the stories, hoping that someone will ear. Hoping that in the noisy echoing nightmare of endlessly breaking news and celebrity gossip, other voices might be heard, speaking of the life of the mind and the soul's journey.

Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits--the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.

I have a new found respect for Atlas.