Absolution Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolution Death Freedom Time
“would be free from his enemies. After once reaching this,” — Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers Copy Share Image
“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.” — M.R. Gott Copy Share Image
“We are free... we are really free to live and to die. If it were not so we would have been told.” — Iain Crichton Smith Copy Share Image
“I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“He was free, free for everything, free to act like an animal or like a machine.” — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“He had given in to hope, and that will kill you. It kills you before you die. Long before you die.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“I had succeeded in saving him, but only, as it turned out, from death.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“There's a price for absolution on this planet, and it's called penance.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Time made apologies and absolution unnecessary. Time didn't really heal, it just made bad memories distant so that the brain couldn't recapture the lost… — Amulya Malladi Copy Share Image
“Pause your opinions, debating and absolute knowing for long enough to conceive gratitude.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you… — Itzhak Bentov Copy Share Image
For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image