Goads Quotes

Every death even the cruellest death drowns in the total indifference of Nature Nature herself would watch unmoved if we destroyed the entire human race I hate Nature this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face that can bear everything this goads us to greater and greater acts

More Goads Quotes

The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats

— The Countess Cathleen, last lines (1892)

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