Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

“All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 1:8-9.

“If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)