Lord Dunsany
Books and Quotes Collection
The Gods of PegΔna
1905
Thy life is long, Eternity is short. So short that, shouldst thou die and Eternity should pass, and after the passing of Eternity thou shouldst live again, thou wouldst say: βI closed mine eyes but for an instant.β
For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
Time and the Gods
1906
In the cityβs midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.
All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.