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Quotes About Interminable

Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded
~ Joseph Conrad
Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
~ Aeschylus
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
~ Flann O'Brien
Contemporary moral argument is rationally interminable, because all moral, indeed all evaluative, argument is and always must be rationally interminable. Contemporary moral disagreements of a certain kind cannot be resolved, because no moral disagreements of that kind in any age, past, present or future, can be resolved.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
~ Henry Roth
Life was indeed interminable. The inattention of her contemporaries to some mortal questions, like race, didn't suit her. She didn't believe a past could, or should, be so easily discarded
~ Jewelle L. Gómez
Actually, the full bell curve goes: brilliant; pretty good; mediocre; mediocre and interminable; dire; vile; dire and vile; and dire, vile, and interminable.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Time went by, swift but interminable. Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
If that was not enough, Franklin also kept his exhausted younger cohort awake far into the night with an interminable disquisition on colds.
~ John Ferling
Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
~ John Geddes
I live at the end of some interminable corridor which the lucky damned can call hell but which the much unluckier atheists - and your mother heads up that bunch- must simply get used to calling home.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
He was on a quest for sensations he had never experienced, did not understand; he was looking for them in his partner (on the watch for each little emotion her face might reflect), he looked for them in himself (for interminable hours of introspection)
~ Milan Kundera
In the uncertain hour before the morningNear the ending of interminable nightAt the recurrent end of the unendingAfter the dark dove with the flickering tongueHad passed below the horizon of his homing.
~ T. S. Eliot
You go on and on and on. I'll never get to the end of you.
~ Gordon Merrick
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.
~ Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The pragmatic method is primarily a method of settling metaphysical disputes that otherwise might be interminable. Is the world one or many?—fated or free?—material or spiritual?
~ William James
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
~ Henry Roth
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 admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
~ Leon Edel
We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.
~ Philip K. Dick
Today's word was interminable , meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
~ Unknown
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 admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
~ Leon Edel
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 of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.
~ Meher Baba
Kill me now." "Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom." Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however, wished fervently for a better one at this moment.
~ Michelle Sagara West