There was nothing more to happen; everything had already happened except for one trifle which would be over soon.

Charles Williams, Descent Into Hell [Bookshop, Amazon]

Hermetic quote Williams Descent into Hell one trifle which would be over soon

Consider also:

  1. “to any cultured listener it seemed to have little bits of everything and everybody put in at odd moments”
  2. Descent Into Hell
  3. “There was, in that latest poetry, no contention between the presences of life and of death; so little indeed that there had been a contention in the Sunday Times whether Stanhope were a pessimist or an optimist. He himself said, in reply to an interviewer’s question, that he was an optimist and hated it.”
  4. “Capacity which, in her nature, had reached the extreme of active life, seemed in him to have entered the contemplative, so much had his art become a thing of his soul. Where, in their own separate private affairs, he interfered so little as almost to seem inefficient, she was so efficient as almost to seem interfering.”
  5. “Anything can happen when witches make the rules”