The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan.... - Rosita Forbes
It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball. - Henryk Sienkiewicz
If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy! - K. Hari Kumar
It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she knew why Atlas stood so tall. - Hubert Martin
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. - Franz Kafka
later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere. - Warsan Shire