Jim > Jim's Quotes

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
― Akira Kurosawa

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.”
― Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

“If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.”
― The Bhagavad Gita

“From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.”
― Hesiod

“I count religion but a childish toy
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.”
― Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta

“We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!”
― Gottfried Von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde (The German Library)

“Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”
― John Webster, The White Devil

“My grief no heart, my thoughts no tongue can tell.”
― Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“It is like a skull, which still has holes for eyes, but no longer sight.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
― Alexander Pope, Essay on Man and Other Poems

“Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope , The Rape of the Lock

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Labour and rest, that equal periods keep;
"Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;"
Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n,
Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav'n.
Grace shines around her with serenest beams,
And whisp'ring angels prompt her golden dreams.
For her th' unfading rose of Eden blooms,
And wings of seraphs shed divine perfumes,
For her the Spouse prepares the bridal ring,
For her white virgins hymeneals sing,
To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away,
And melts in visions of eternal day.”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein