Born Quote by Thomas Otway

“Wealth had not corrupted him. What he’d chosen to do with his wealth corrupted him. First he insulated himself from ordinary human experience, and…

— Dean Koontz

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for…

— Eusebius

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and…

— Blaise Pascal

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion…

— Edmund Burke

“The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In this world, therefore, the dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of…

— Augustine of Hippo

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery:…

— Graham Greene

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the…

— Samuel Johnson