Famous quotes containing the words pendulum, sine and/or law:
“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering—that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Hamm as stated, and Clov as stated, together as stated, nec tecum nec sine te, in such a place, and in such a world, that’s all I can manage, more than I could.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)