Without figures we cannot think; yet the timeless and spaceless world can ill be figured after the likeness of things limited by time and space.

It passed, unreal and timeless, in a glorious mist, a delighted fever: the background a blur of glossy white bulkheads and iron rails, awnings that fluttered in the warm, languorous winds, an infinite tropic ocean poignantly blue; the foreground, Miss Forrester.

And since our mirth is turned into moan, Our merry sport to tragic funeral, We will prepare our power for Austria, After Earl Robert's timeless burial.

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

He roams through a region that seems timeless and spaceless.

To know reality man can no longer rest in a 'timeless' contemplation of a static system; he must expand his thoughts so as to cope with a perpetually changing process.

The mountains were timeless, or in a different flow of time.

It was a journey that seemed timeless.

While with the majority of mankind, as with animals, the intellect always remains a prisoner in the service of the will to live, of self-preservation, of personal interests, in gifted men, in artists and thinkers, it strips off all that is individual, and, in disinterested vision of the Ideas, becomes pure, timeless subject, freed from the will.

It is the Hymn of Timeless Sorrow that they play, and the key to which they are attuned in Cracow's long despair.

The timeless traveler.

Timeless Mexico.

The timeless traveler; twenty letters to the Liverpool mercury by Anthony Trollope, 1875.

One timeless spring.

And what their sin?"They fell by one disease! (Not by the Proteus maladies, that strike Man into nothingnessnot twice alike;) By the blue pest, whose gripe no art can shun, No force unwrenchout-singled one by one; When like a timeless birth, the womb of Fate Bore a new death, of unrecorded date, And doubtful name.

Consciousness, unconditioned by time, "in a beautiful strong dream," awakens to the perception of a world that is timeless.

No attribute connected with succession can be applied to it, for it is all at once and wholly what it is, 'with the unity of a single instant,' and succession is not of it but in it, for we are continually told that it is 'timeless.' Things true of the world in its finite aspects, then, are not true of it in its infinite capacity.

The doctrine on which the absolutists lay most stress is the absolute's 'timeless' character.

'I have never doubted,' a recent Oxford writer says, that truth is universal and single and timeless, a single content or significance, one and whole and complete.

Having an environment, being in time, and working out a history just like ourselves, he escapes from the foreignness from all that is human, of the static timeless perfect absolute.

In just this way do some of us hold to the unfinished pluralistic universe; in just this way do others hold to the timeless universe eternally complete.

For the essential bitterness and pain that lies at the heart of all transitory earthly thingsthe gnawing sense of incompleteness and vanity that touches the section of transitory existence men call "life," met face to face with this passing glimpse of reality, timeless and unconditioned, which the sound of the splendid name flashed so terrifically before his awakened soul-vision,and threatened to overwhelm him.

Perhaps the magic may lie in the scent of strange evergreens and mosses not known outside the ranges: or it may strike from wall to wall of timeless rifts and gorges, but it seemed to me to draw out of the great sea that washes further Asiathe Asia of allied mountains, mines, and forests.

No inquiry for the psychological possibilities must be suffered to divide his effort for her physical recovery, though there might come with this a cessation of the timeless dream-state in which she had her being, and she might sharply realize the past, as the anaesthete realizes his return to agony from insensibility.

The Enchanted Island, indeed, peopled, for a timeless moment, by this strange fantastic medley of persons and of things, has been cut adrift for ever from common sense, and floats, buoyed up by a sea, not of waters, but of poetry.