“we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I have also learnt sympathy with suffering. To me, suffering seems now a sacramental thing, that makes those whom it touches holy.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I can sympathise with everything, except suffering", cried Lord Harry, Shrugging his shoulders. "I cannot sympathise with that. It is too ugly,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There was a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was so horrible in its agony that the frightened servants woke and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“And so, it is not our own life that we live, but the lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
