Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust."
Meteors quotes
Meteors
10 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."
Jack London
Novelist, Journalist
"I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot."
Scott Adams
Cartoonist
"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars."
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"Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion."
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