Edgar Saltus

“Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on,…

— Edgar Saltus

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

— Edgar Saltus

A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

— Edgar Saltus

“But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had…

— Edgar Saltus

I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I…

— Edgar Saltus

[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

— Edgar Saltus

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

— Edgar Saltus

Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

— Edgar Saltus

A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

— Edgar Saltus

I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one…

— Edgar Saltus

“To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far…

— Edgar Saltus