At the Earth's Core Quotes

“But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time—I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“how futile is man's poor, weak imagination by comparison with Nature's incredible genius. And”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“Bowen!" she cried. "Your knife!”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot

“Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot

“Perry used to say that if a fellow was one-tenth as remarkable as his wife or mother thought him, he would have the world by the tail with a down-hill drag.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“And with these thoughts came a realization of how unimportant to the life and happiness of the world is the existence of any one of us. We may be snuffed out without an instant's warning, and for a brief day our friends speak of us with subdued voices. The following morning, while the first worm is busily engaged in testing the construction of our coffin, they are teeing up for the first hole to suffer more acute sorrow over a sliced ball than they did over our, to us, untimely demise.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“It was all a matter of chance and so I set off down that which seemed the easiest going, and in this I made the same mistake that many of us do in selecting the path along which we shall follow out the course of our lives, and again learned that it is not always best to follow the line of least resistance.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our finite minds cannot grasp that which may not exist in accordance with the conditions which obtain about us upon the outside of the insignificant grain of dust which wends its tiny way among the bowlders of the universe—the speck of moist dirt we so proudly call the World.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“She told me that she was called Dian the Beautiful, and that she belonged to the tribe of Amoz, which dwells in the cliffs above the Darel Az, or shallow sea.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“I thought of my friends of the outer world, and of how they all would go on living their lives in total ignorance of the strange and terrible fate that had overtaken me, or unguessing the weird surroundings which had witnessed the last frightful agony of my extinction. And with these thoughts came a realization of how unimportant to the life and happiness of the world is the existence of any one of us. We may be snuffed out without an instant's warning, and for a brief day our friends speak of us with subdued voices. The following morning, while the first worm is busily engaged in testing the construction of our coffin, they are teeing up for the first hole to suffer more acute sorrow over a sliced ball than they did over our, to us, untimely demise.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“But when I saw these sleek, shiny carcasses shimmering in the sunlight as they emerged from the ocean, shaking their giant heads; when I saw the waters roll from their sinuous bodies in miniature waterfalls as they glided hither and thither, now upon the surface, now half submerged; as I saw them meet, open-mouthed, hissing and snorting, in their titanic and interminable warring I realized how futile is man’s poor, week imagination by comparison with Nature’s incredible genius.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“But it was ever thus. That which has never come within the scope of our really pitifully meager world-experience cannot be—our”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

“There was no need for words—at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would,”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core