quotes from the picture of dorian gray that make me cry every time (part 2):
the advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray, the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
humanity takes itself too seriously. it is the world’s original sin. if the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
to get back one’s youth, one has to merely repeat one’s follies.
men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
there are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
to have ruined one’s self over poetry is an honour.
she is all the great heroines of the world in one. she is more than an individual.
i want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad.
experience was of no ethical value. it was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
lips that shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear.
without her you would have been incomplete.
the curves of her throat were the curves of a white lily.
there are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
i might mimic a passion that i do not feel, but i cannot mimic one that burns me like fire.
why had he been made like that? why had such a soul been given to him?
it is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
i can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
there is a fatality about good resolutions — they are always made too late.
i forget what killed it. i think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. that is always a dreadful moment. it fills one with the terror of eternity.
nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
if one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened.
there was so much in him that was good, so much in him that was noble.
i should like to have something more of her than the memory of a few kisses and some broken pathetic words.
i was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you.
titsay
turnnoffyourmind
stormborns
germansingergirl
tangentwithtanner
