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"Endlessness" Quotes from Famous Books

... monotonous endlessness of the workshops I made my way to the levels above where the workers lived in those hours when they ceased to be a part of the industrial mechanism of production; and everywhere were drab-coloured men for these shifts of labour were ...

— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings

... Zahiri (outsider), and the latter a Batini, an insider. Moses is quoted because he ignored future rewards and punishments. As regards the "two Eternities," Persian and Arab metaphysicians split Eternity, i.e., the negation of Time, into two halves, Azal (beginninglessness) and Abad (endlessness); both being mere words, gatherings of letters with a subjective significance. In English we use "Eternal" (Aeviternus, age-long, life-long) as loosely, by applying it to three distinct ideas; (1) the habitual, in popular parlance; (2) the exempt from duration; and (3) the everlasting, which ...

— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton

... raft bore them through the never-changing scene of the canal's muddy banks and the endlessness ...

— Stand by for Mars! • Carey Rockwell

... shall we know the cursed waste Of life in the beneficence divine Of starlight and of sunlight and soul-shine That we have squandered in sin's frail distress, Till we have drunk, and trembled at the taste, The mead of Thought's prophetic endlessness. ...

— The Children of the Night • Edwin Arlington Robinson

... 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; ...

— Son of Power • Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost

... everlasting. The other twelve times it is a translation of the word Gehenna used by our Lord, and no scholar with the least regard for his reputation would dream of stating that our Lord certainly meant it to convey the idea of endlessness. It was the name of a horrible valley outside Jerusalem where things were cast out to be burnt, to keep the city pure. The Jewish prophets took the word as a metaphor to express the fate of wicked men. From it they drew their images used by our Lord of "the worm that dieth ...

— The Gospel of the Hereafter • J. Paterson-Smyth

Words linked to "Endlessness" : duration, endless, length, continuousness, ceaselessness, incessantness, incessancy