Measureless Quotes

#1. Since the beginning, on the dry earth of this measureless land scraped to the bone, a few men ceaselessly made their way, possessing nothing but serving no one, the destitute and free lords of a strange kingdom.

Albert Camus

#2. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. How long that part of the cycle had lasted he did not now know; nothing had happened, generally, so it had been measureless.

Philip K. Dick

#4. Love has to be ... flowering like the stars, and measureless as a kiss.

Pablo Neruda

#5. The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Bernard Berenson

#6. Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

James A. Garfield

#8. Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

Herman Melville

#10. The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.

Jack W. Hayford

#11. Remember this, if you can
there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end
only in the end it becomes more obvious.

Herman Wouk

#12. To say that God is infinite," wrote A. W. Tozer, "is to say that He is measureless."3

William P. Farley

#13. People around depressives expect them to get themselves together: our society has little room in it for moping. Spouses, parents, children, and friends are all subject to being brought down themselves, and they do not want to be close to measureless pain.

Andrew Solomon

#14. In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

Walt Whitman

#15. Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.

Walt Whitman

#16. The greatest poet does not moralize or make applications of morals ... he knows the soul. The soul has that measureless pride which consists in never acknowledging any lessons but its own.

Walt Whitman

#17. Those bitter sorrows of childhood!
when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

George Eliot

#18. Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

John Muir

#19. Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America

Eric Hoffer

#20. How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Winston Churchill

#21. It is clear the future holds opportunities - it also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to seize the opportunities, avoid the pitfalls, and get back home by 6:00. - Woody Allen

Anonymous

#22. All writers are to some extent inventors, describing people as they would like to see them in life.

Harold Bloom

#23. I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

Damien Chazelle

#24. To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

Norman Reedus

#26. Let's go with the wheat and rye. She's shorter than me so looking up should throw her off her game." "Are you hiding the bread?" "If I don't hide the bread, then she'll think she's won." Morgan pushed the cart over to the produce.

Adrienne Wilder

#27. Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#28. No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. With a smile, the man at the oar moved from side to side: It is beautiful, sir, it is as you say. But isn't every life, isn't every work beautiful?

Hermann Hesse

#30. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

Warren Buffett

#31. Let go of the past and go for the future.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

Maud Adams

#33. I'm not a believer of the "perfect world" TV tries to feed us.

Marilyn Manson