Once, to remove a tooth and straighten the rest, they made me senseless; and that sinking into senselessness, though I knew I should waken in a minute, was horrible; andto sink into senselessness from which I shall never waken!

Once, to remove a tooth and straighten the rest, they made me senseless; and that sinking into senselessness, though I knew I should waken in a minute, was horrible; andto sink into senselessness from which I shall never waken!

You dread death not as a short terrible pain, and for you it will not be so, not as a short sleep, but as eternal senselessness and nothingness.

Too weak now to reason, or to resist the impression enforced upon her mind by minds always far more powerful than her own in its brightest hours, she turned instinctively from the thought of blackness, senselessness eternal, to that of a Father whose hand could uphold, of the wings that can leap the grave.

It is impossible to comprehend the senselessness of this conduct, for which no reasons of military necessity can be advanced.

Vexed at the feeble senselessness of her reply she found herself walking down the landing, toward nowhere in particular.

The height of his spirits overlooks all casualties, and his boldness proceeds neither from ignorance nor senselessness; but first he values evils, and then despises them.

Custom of sin hath wrought this senselessness, which now hath so long entertained that it pleads prescription and knows not to be altered.

The vague protest that for some time had been growing within her against the senselessness and futility of her manner of existence crystallized itself now into a determination no longer to submit to it.

"There is a difference between a sullen silence or a stupid senselessness under the hand of GOD, and a childlike submission thereunto.

It's the sense of wanton destruction that makes one loathe it, the utter senselessness of it all, the waste of such good stuff.

"It's the frightful senselessness of all this waste of life which makes one sick with horror...

The frightful senselessness of it was apparent when the enemies of two nations fighting to the death stood in the grey mist together and liked each other.

It deals with the insanity of pride and the senselessness of egotism.

"What the eighteenth century lacked [M. Guizot, Melanges biographiques (Madame la Comtesse de Rumford)], "what there was of superficiality in its ideas and of decay in its morals, of senselessness in its pretensions and of futility in its creative power, has been strikingly revealed to us by experience; we have learned it to our cost.

Folly, imbecility, senselessness, stupidity.

Far other show My youth here witnessed, in a prouder time; 10 The senselessness of joy was then sublime!