Interminable Quotes

40 quotes by 39 authors

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. — Seneca the Elder
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
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness. — Charles Lamb
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
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
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
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow. — Murasaki Shikibu
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
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
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief. — Henry Roth
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
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
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
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable. — Flann O'Brien
...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable... — John M. Geddes
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
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
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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