"I was coming home from some place at the end of the world, about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my way lay through a part of town where there was literally nothing to be seen but lamps."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ... See MoreSee Less

"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil ... See MoreSee Less

"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets"
- T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ... See MoreSee Less

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus ... See MoreSee Less

"Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops."
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ... See MoreSee Less

"The air increased in transparency with the lapse of minutes, till the topaz points showed themselves to be the vanes, windows, wet roof slates, and other shining spots upon the spires..."
- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure ... See MoreSee Less

"An hour wears away; the spires of the churches and roofs of the principal buildings are faintly tinged with the light of the rising sun, and the streets, by almost imperceptible degrees, begin to resume their bustle and animation."
- Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz ... See MoreSee Less

"High up in the steeple of an old church, far above the light and murmur of the town and far below the flying clouds that shadow it, is the wild and dreary place at night: and high up in the steeple of an old church, dwelt the Chimes I tell of."
- Charles Dickens, The Chimes ... See MoreSee Less

"The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything!"
- Bram Stoker, Dracula ... See MoreSee Less

"In this one valley, where the life of the town goes most busily forward, there may be seen, shown one above and behind another by the accidents of the ground, buildings in almost every style upon the globe."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes ... See MoreSee Less

"He had known terror in a dream, but it was the terror of the summit, where wind whistled."
- William Golding, The Spire ... See MoreSee Less

"In Edinburgh, a large open street, or rather oblong square, surrounded by high houses, called the Grassmarket, was used for the same melancholy purpose."
- Walter Scott, The Heart of MidLothian ... See MoreSee Less

"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air
Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself
Unto our gentle senses."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth ... See MoreSee Less

"The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Rainy Day ... See MoreSee Less

"At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits
Like a taxi throbbing waiting..."
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land ... See MoreSee Less