"O Space and Time and stars at strife,……" — George Sterling
"O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)"
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8 Quotes by George Sterling
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Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty…
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The cool, grey city of love.
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A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster…
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As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The…
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And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")
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Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought…
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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own…
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would…
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill…
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in…
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