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Endlessness Quotes

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Hildegard of Bingen
“Like billowing clouds,
Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
Hildegard von Bingen

Stanisław Lem
“The night stared me in the face, amorphous, blind, infinite, without frontiers. Not a single start relieved the darkness behind the glass.”
Stanisław Lem, Solaris

John Green
“We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.”
John Green

Jonathan Franzen
“The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.”
Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away

M.L. Stedman
“The oceans never stop. They know no beginning or end. The wind never finishes. Sometimes it disappears, but only to gather momentum from somewhere else, returning to fling itself at the island, to make a point which is lost on Tom.”
M.L. Stedman

“And to this day I love endless landscapes, big horizons, sunflowers, and narcissi.”
Gisela Hausmann "Naked Determination 41 Stories About Overcoming Fear"

Bryant McGill
“When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.”
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Bryant McGill
“Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.”
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Maggie Shipstead
“Circles are wondrous because they are endless. Anything endless is wondrous. But endlessness is torture, too.

[Marian Graves]”
Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

Herman Melville
“Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to melt the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and aye. Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.”
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Meara O'Hara
“I suddenly felt the weight lift off my shoulders as the whole world seemed wild and wonderful. I closed my eyes, holding my breath, trying to hold onto the moment. I wanted to forget that it wouldn't last forever. I wanted to forget that I couldn't be the wind. I wanted to forget that when the car stopped, I would be me and he would be him again.”
Meara O'Hara, The Wanderess and her Suitcase

Bryant McGill
“Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.”
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Luigina Sgarro
“When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite.”
Luigina Sgarro

Sabrina Orah Mark
“This is the problem with hunger. This is the problem with love. There is no end in sight.”
Sabrina Orah Mark, Wild Milk

“Knowledge, just like the universe, holds no end, only endless beginnings waiting to be discovered.”
Aloo Denish Obiero