Oscar Wilde: Quotes about life (page 2)

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things… I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

“A kiss may ruin a human life”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…”

“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”