Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Society
  • Creature
  • Valley