Quotes on Earth

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

But one kiss levitates above all the others. The intersection of function and desire. The I do kiss. The I’ll love you through a brick wall kiss. Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.