Atlas Quotes

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“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.”
― Warsan Shire

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

“As for me, I did the stupidest thing in my life, which is saying a lot. I attacked the Titan Lord Atlas.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

“I don't know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming presence about them and he's one of those people.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch – or build a cyclotron – without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think.
“But to think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs, or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival – so that for you, who are a human being, the question ‘to be or not to be’ is the question ‘to think or not to think.’ . . .
“Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. . . Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history (pages 1012-1013).”
― Ayn Rand

“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.”
― Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands

“The weight of the sky dropped onto Atlas's back, almost smashing him flat until he managed to get to his knees, struggling to get out from under the crushing weight of the sky. But it was too late.

"Noooooo!" He bellowed so hard it shook the mountain.

"Not again!"

Atlas was trapped under his old burden.”
― Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse

“I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

“I guess it could be worse. My name could be Tlaquepaque, or Irkutsk, or Pyongyang. Or, you know, Pittsburgh. Sometimes I flip through the atlas just to remind myself of all the names that would be worse than mine.”
― Tamara Summers, Save the Date

“I have a new found respect for Atlas.”
― Solange nicole

“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.”
― Justin K. McFarlane Beau

“Going by Dr. Marriott's description, Zoe imagined it to be small and elegant as she peered into dozens of shelves, rummaging through the contents. There were globes and charts and atlases, pocket watches and hand-painted Indian silk, gold-plated cutlery, litter coffers of spice, inlaid combs, silver fasteners, trinket boxes, blown-glass figurines, turn-of-the-century postcards with foreign stamps, and portraits of Victorian authors in elaborate frames. But nowhere did she discover a stone of any kind, with or without runes.”
― Christine Brodien-Jones, The Glass Puzzle

“Hayattan ders veriyor diye öğretmenleri kızdıran
Tuzu bir bulmuş çocukları saklamadan güldüren dünyaya
Su kaçırmaz bir eşeğin sesine açıktır penceresi
Bir sınıfın, batı son dersinde, kuşluk vakti

Meşeler yapraklanınca bir tuhaf olurlar işte
Koparılmış kürt çiçekleri, hatırlayarak amcalarını
Azınlıkta oldukları bir okulda bile, sorarlar soru
Neden feriklerin ve eşeklerin memeleri vardır?

En arka sırada çift dikişliler, sınavda en öne
İntihara ve denizde nasıl boğulmaya çalışırlar
Yalnız Orta Doğu'da el altında satılan bir atlas
Kim demiş on sekiz yaşından küçükler okuyamaz

Bakıldı ki kum saati, ters çevrilmiş, çıt, usul isa asi olmuş
İkinci karnede babası yarısını silahıyla dışarda bırakıp
Öyle öğretildiği için saygılı, sınıfa giren parmak çocuğun
Boş yerine, girilmeyen bir dersin denizi, gelip oturmuş

Açık kalmış atlası, deniz taşmıştır, darılmasın Fırat ama

Hayatın orta öğretmeni sustu, dondu gülmeleri çocukların
Bir cenaze töreninde daha ölümü karşılamaya götürüleceğiz

Efendiler! Eşekler susabilirler
Ne yani çocuklar hiç gülmeyecekler mi?”
― Ece Ayhan

“¿Cuál es el animal con voz, que en la mañana camina en cuatro patas, por la tarde en anda en dos, y al anochecer en tres?

Un Edipo contemporáneo respondería: El mismo que comenzó a estudiar con pesados Atlas y enciclopedias en papel, luego lo hizo con software educativo como Encarta, y ahora, estudia con artículos de Wikipedia. Todo en el transcurso de un día generacional, o una vida.”
― Byron Rizzo, The Ephemeral Age: Keys to understand fast times and scheduled obsolescence

“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.”
― Winterson, Jeanette

“Darling,

who made you believe
stumbling down the aisle
was like marching to your death
on bloodstained knees?

How did it ever come to this?

You,
thinking love to be a monster
sent to torch your lungs
and make the atlas in your blood
collapse future lineages
because you’re afraid.”
― Cynthia Cisneros, Burned Tongues: Poems

“Darling,
who made you believe
stumbling down the aisle
was like marching to your death
on bloodstained knees?

How did it ever come to this?

You,
thinking love to be a monster
sent to torch your lungs
and make the atlas in your blood
collapse future lineages
because you’re afraid.”
― Cynthia Cisneros, Burned Tongues: Poems

“The influence of William Shakespeare on the English language and literature can hardly be
exaggerated. His life spanned A.D. 1564 to 1616 and he made a name for himself as a poet and playwright. Creating such memorable works as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, he has
become the most-quoted author of the English-speaking world. Because of this, many of the words and phrases he used or coined are still in use today. His plays are still studied and performed.”
― Craig Froman, Children's Atlas of God's World

“Train hard, for worlds are heavy”
― ddekaristw

“Train hard, for worlds are heavy.”
― ddekaristw

“Train hard, for worlds are heavy.”
― Kratistw

“Prepare well, for worlds are heavy.”
― Kratistw

“Prepare well, for worlds hold great weight.”
― Kratistw

“Believe me, Lily. I know that wasn't a pity fuck. I was there.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“only the dead keep secrets."

"it is not easy. Taking a life, even when we knew it was required."

"most people want only to be cared for. If I had no softness, I'd get nowhere at all."

"a flaw of humanity. The compulsion to be unique, which is at war with the desire to belong to a single identifiable sameness."

"someone always gains, just like someone always loses."

"most women are less in love with the partners they choose than they are simply desperate for their approval, starving for their devotion. They want most often to be touched as no one else can touch them, and most of them inaccurately assume this requires romance. But the moment we realize we can feel fulfilled without carrying the burdens of belonging to another, that we can experience rapture without being someone's other half, and therefore beholden to their weaknesses, to their faults and failures and their many insufferable fractures, then we're free, aren't we? "

" enough, for once, to feel, and nothing else. "

" there was no stopping what one person could believe. "

" I noticed that if I did certain things, said things in certain way, or held her eye contact while I did them, I could make her... Soften toward me. "

" I think I've already decided what I'm going to do, and I just hope it's the right thing. But it isn't, or maybe it is. But I suppose it doesn't matter, because I've already started, and looking back won't help. "

" luck is a matter of probabilities. "

"you want to believe that your hesitation makes you good, make you feel better? It doesn't. Every single one of us is missing something. We are all too powerful, too extraordinary, and don't you see it's because we're riddled with vacancies? We are empty and trying to fill, lighting ourselves on fire just to prove that we are normal, that we are ordinary. That we, like anything, can burn. "

" ask yourself where power comes from, if you can't see the source, don't trust it. "

" an assassin acting on his own internal compass. Whether he lived or died as a result of his own choice? Unimportant. He didn't raise an army didn't fight for good, didn't interfere much with the queen's other evils. It was whether or not he could live with his own decision because life was the only thing that truly matters. "

" the truest truth : mortal lifetimes were short, inconsequential. Convictions were death sentences. Money couldn't buy happiness, but nothing could buy happiness, so at least money could buy everything else. In term of finding satisfaction, all a person was capable of controlling was himself. "

" humans were mostly sensible animals. They knew the dangers of erratic behavior. It was a chronic condition, survival. My intention is as same as others. Stand taller, think smarter, be better. "

" she couldn't remember what version of her had put herself into that relationship, into that life, or somehow into this shape, which still looked and felt as it always had but wasn't anymore. "

" conservative of energy meant that there must be dozens of people in the world who didn't exist because of she did. "

" what replace feelings when there were none to be had? "

" the absence of something was never as effective as the present of something. "

"To be suspended in nothing, he said, was to lack all motivation, all desire. It was not numbness which was pleasurable in fits, but functional paralysis. Neither to want to live nor to die, but to never exist. Impossible to fight."

"apology accepted. Forgiveness, however, declined."

"there cannot be success without failure. No luck without unluck."

"no life without death?"

"Everything collapse, you will, too. You will, soon.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Six

“A veces las personas piensas que, si aman a alguien roto con la suficiente intensidad, lograrán repararlo, pero no es así. Lo mas probable es que la otra persona acabe igual de rota.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us