Life Quote by Annie Dillard

“The Puritans turned work into a virtue, evidently forgetting that God invented it as a punishment.”

— Tim Kreider

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“Puritanism brings nothing but mindlessness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune…

— R. H. Tawney

“I think that deep inside yourself, in your heart, you're a Puritan. Yes, a Puritan. Or an ascetic; a sort of hermit monk. I…

— James Ramsey Ullman

I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort,…

— Robert Henri

“The creator seeks companions, not corpses- and not herds or believers either. The creator seeks fellow-creators - those who grave new values on new…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Too much of the old Puritan spirit exists in these parts to the present hour; but its influence has not tended, that I know,…

— Charles Dickens

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

— Gunter Grass

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

— D. H. Lawrence

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

— Adam Nicolson