Interminable Quotes
40 quotes by 39 authors
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There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
— Seneca the Elder
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always…
— Leon Edel
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To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
— Charles Lamb
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The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility…
— Jacques Derrida
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We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression…
— Albert Camus
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Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
— Murasaki Shikibu
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London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,…
— Paul Verlaine
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The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder…
— Meher Baba
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Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
— Henry Roth
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The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable…
— Anatole Broyard
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our mistake, you see, was to write interminable large operas, which had to fill an entire evening. And now along comes someone with a one…
— Giuseppe Verdi
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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be…
— Quentin Crisp
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Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
— Flann O'Brien
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...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
— John M. Geddes
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The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the…
— Charles Dickens
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ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of…
— E. M. Forster
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