"Endlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bells, or some figure coming athwart the fields, made picturesque by a gleaner's bundle or a woodman's faggot, there is no change, no variety, no beauty anywhere; and he who has dwelt upon the mountains or amidst the forests feels oppressed as by imprisonment with the tedium and the endlessness of that vast and ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
... conquers worlds, thro' a son's son one attains endlessness, and through the son's son of a son one attains the world ...
— On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay • Hugh E. Seebohm
... and tossing great bales around as though they were feather pillows, she felt strengthened in her disobedience to her father. Also (it was her first visit to the warehouse, and Sin Rock was the chief distributing point to several chains of lesser posts), she was astounded at the endlessness of ...
— The Faith of Men • Jack London
... Sense of time was gone—even the endlessness of it. Sense of whiteness was gone. His vision wakened, as he groped through deepening shadows, on and on—till they turned to utter blackness. In that utter blackness appeared a thread of pure blue; he ...
— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
... Endlessness is the order of the day. I ask you to compare Plutarch's lives of demigods and heroes with our modern biographies of deminoughts and zeroes. Those will appear but tailors and ninth-parts of men in comparison with these, every ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various |
