“Look.... the sky!... you can feel the weight of it. It's as if it were packed with snow.”

“It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden's weight
Until it has been on his back”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

“When the snow fall
and the white winds blow,
the lone wolf dies
but the pack survives.”

George Raymond Richard Martin (1948) American writer, screenwriter and television producer

“Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

“Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You can take everything from me except the freedom to look up at the sky occasionally.”

Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author

“The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath.”

Kalpana Chawla (1962–2003) American astronaut

“What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I,
I, this incessant snow,
This northern sky.”

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer

“All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22