HomeQuotes“Suffering is one very long moment.”120 likes“Suffering is one very long moment.”— Oscar Wilde《De Profundis》More from Oscar Wilde“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》More from 《De Profundis》“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development.”— Oscar Wilde《De Profundis》“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”— Oscar Wilde《De Profundis》“Nothing in the whole world is meaningless, and suffering least of all.”— Oscar Wilde《De Profundis》Dynamic discoveryYou may also like“His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his Spirits raised by the hope of soon restoring her to freedom, He now had time to give a few moments to love and to Antonia.”— Matthew Gregory Lewis《The Monk》“This gave me new life and spirits; and my heart burned within me, while I thought the time long till I obtained my freedom.”— Olaudah Equiano《The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano》“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》“Several times, the thought had come to me, that the Things had, at last, left us; but, up to this time, I had refused to entertain the idea, seriously; now, however, I began to feel that there was reason for hope.”— William Hope Hodgson《The House on the Borderland》“I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life.”— Mary Rowlandson《Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson》“Future events such as these will affect you in the future.”— Criswell《Plan 9 from Outer Space》“As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.”— Homer《Odyssey》“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》“Till this moment, I never knew myself.”— Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》“The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all seemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was without expectation.”— Ambrose Bierce《The Damned Thing》“Alas howe my soule and bodye were lothe to leaue one an another, the sorrowe whereof made me vnwilling to intertaine so cruel an enemy as death: whereupon I plucking vp a good heart, thought thus.”— Francesco Colonna《Hypnerotomachia Poliphili》Load more recommendations
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at.”— Oscar Wilde《The Soul of Man under Socialism》
“His mind relieved from inquietude respecting his Sister, and his Spirits raised by the hope of soon restoring her to freedom, He now had time to give a few moments to love and to Antonia.”— Matthew Gregory Lewis《The Monk》
“This gave me new life and spirits; and my heart burned within me, while I thought the time long till I obtained my freedom.”— Olaudah Equiano《The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano》
“Your mother thought that as you and I, in a short time, have become, so to say, friends, and you have some confidence in me, I am in a position to give you good advice—and you would mind what I say.”— Ivan Turgenev《The Torrents of Spring》
“DEAR DICK, At what time of life may a man think himself exempted from the necessity of sacrificing his repose to the punctilios of a contemptible world?”— Tobias Smollett《The Expedition of Humphry Clinker》
“Several times, the thought had come to me, that the Things had, at last, left us; but, up to this time, I had refused to entertain the idea, seriously; now, however, I began to feel that there was reason for hope.”— William Hope Hodgson《The House on the Borderland》
“I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life.”— Mary Rowlandson《Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson》
“As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall bless you.”— Homer《Odyssey》
“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》
“The man with the book was not reading aloud, and no one spoke; all seemed to be waiting for something to occur; the dead man only was without expectation.”— Ambrose Bierce《The Damned Thing》
“Alas howe my soule and bodye were lothe to leaue one an another, the sorrowe whereof made me vnwilling to intertaine so cruel an enemy as death: whereupon I plucking vp a good heart, thought thus.”— Francesco Colonna《Hypnerotomachia Poliphili》
