"End of the world" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... will find stuff for your songs:—blue rivers flowing through forest arches, and vineyards; velvet meads, soft as ottomans: bright maidens braiding the golden locks of the harvest; and a background of mountains, that seem the end of the world. Or if nature will not content you, then turn to the landscapes of art. See! mosaic walls, tattooed like our faces; paintings, vast as horizons; and into which, you feel you could rush: See! statues to which you could off turban; cities of columns standing thick as ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... were equipped with a body of truth which they presented to the world in the same unhesitating way. Indeed, that is the only way in which the central truths of the Christian Faith can be presented. They are not the conclusions of argument, which may be taken up and argued over again to the end of the world,—they are the dicta of revelation. We either know them to be true because they have been revealed, or we do not know them to be true at all. They are mysteries, that is, truths beyond the possibility of human finding which have been made known to man by God Himself. They are the appropriate ...
— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry
... I sought me out a Mohar who knows his power and leads the jeunesse, a chief in the armee, [who travels] even to the end of the world. ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce
... delivered out of the hands of their enemies and that their oppressors would in turn be brought to grief. There was also in the section round about Judaea a belief, which had grown until it had become well-nigh universal, that the end of the world, or the end of the age, was speedily coming, that then there would be an end of all earthly government and that the reign of Jehovah—the kingdom of God—would be established. These two beliefs went hand in hand. They were ...
— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine
... I never thought To hear the news of that. If you've the truth In what you say, likely this is an evening That we'll be talking over often and often. 'How was it, Sellers?' I'll say; 'or you, Merrick, Do you mind clearly how he lookt?'—And then— "End of the world" he said, and drank—like that, Solemn!'—And right he was: he had it all As sure as I have when my ...
— Georgian Poetry 1913-15 • Edited by E. M. (Sir Edward Howard Marsh)
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