"Exhaustible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... can say only for one moment that it is; for ever after, that it was. Every evening we are poorer by a day. It might, perhaps, make us mad to see how rapidly our short span of time ebbs away; if it were not that in the furthest depths of our being we are secretly conscious of our share in the exhaustible spring of eternity, so that we can always hope to find ...
— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer
... be sought in the Irish Melodies, to which a considerable share of merit, and of apposite merit, is not to be denied: yet even here what deserts around the oases, and the oases themselves how soon exhaustible and forgettable! There are but few thoroughly beautiful and touching lines in the whole of Moore's poetry. Here ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |
