Endless Quotes
1324 Endless quotes by 977 unique authors
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The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
— H. L. Mencken
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You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
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Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
— Annie Dillard
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How I love them. How good they are. They endure endless hours of me talking about the future. They keep me near and at the…
— Carole Maso
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The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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You've only got to begin to do anything to find out how few honest, honourable people there are. Sometimes, when I can't sleep, I think:…
— Anton Chekhov
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Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people…
— Anais Nin
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From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.…
— Sherwood Anderson
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,…
— John Green
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perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it…
— Hugh Prather
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's…
— Haruki Murakami
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Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Don't be afraid of StarClan. They will understand about Brokentail. You will be honored by our warrior ancestors for your loyalty toy your Clanmates and…
— Erin Hunter
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A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual…
— Ayn Rand
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A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I…
— Josh Groban
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Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
— Haruki Murakami
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Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment…
— Alison Croggon
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but…
— Gregory Maguire
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The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and…
— John Steinbeck
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I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
— Gregory David Roberts
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to…
— Edith Wharton
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To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too…
— Francis Bacon
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