Quotes About Niobe

This was the mother, the dead sister Ellen: this Niobe without tears who had conceived to the demon in a kind of nightmare, who even while alive had moved but without life and grieved but without weeping, who now had an air of tranquil and unwitting desolation, not as if she had either outlived the others or had died first, but as if she had never lived at all.

The Black Plague!" Niobe exclaimed. "What good did that do?" "It alleviated the European population pressure, decimated the labor force, and-so paved the way for the end of the feudal system," Satan said. "You can't keep workers in peonage when there are so few that their value is great.