The long road hurried to nowhere and had no end.

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.

...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from anywhere further away. Nor for in the end again by degrees or as though switched on dark falls there again that certain dark that alone certain ashes can. Through it who knows yet another end beneath a cloudless sky of a last end if ever there had to be another absolutely had to be.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

Darkness thickened and collapsed about him. Some of it never lifted again.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen.

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came, And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.