“I must go in, the fog is rising.”

— Emily Dickinson

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American poet 1830–1886

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Just like a feeling that you're sending out,
I pick it up.
But I can't let you go.
If I let you go,
You slip into the fog…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Source: Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)

“One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"…The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."”

Michael Frayn (1933) British writer

James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.

“I may,
if I can,
sleep; since I must,
die.
Some say,
rise.”

Josephine Jacobsen (1908–2003) American-Canadian poet

"The Monosyllable" lines 15–20, The Chinese Insomniacs: New Poems, 1981, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0812278186

“All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not.”

Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author

Source: The Black Room (1975), p. 20
Context: All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.