“All afflicts and injures me, and conspires to my injury.”
Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire.
Phèdre, act I, scene III.
Phèdre (1677)
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French dramatist 1639–1699Related quotes
“My sins, my wild loves, and Fate herself
have all conspired against me.”
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
Em minha perdição se conjuraram.
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 99
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Erros meus, má fortuna, amor ardente
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), I : The Man of Flesh and Bone
Context: Everything in me that conspires to break the unity and continuity of my life conspires to destroy me and consequently to destroy itself. Every individual in a people who conspires to break the spiritual unity and continuity of that people tends to destroy it and to destroy himself as a part of that people.
“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”
Tony Kushner (1956) American playwright and screenwriter
Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
Thomas Jefferson book Notes on the State of Virginia
Query XVII
1780s, Notes on the State of Virginia
“Alas, time and head injuries are stealing all my memories.”
James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer
Review of Women of Wonder, anthology edited by Pamela Sargent https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/by-women-about-women, 2015 <br class="br">2010s
Menno Simons (1496–1561) Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites
Why I Do Not Cease Teaching and Writing, 1539
“I have not been without battle.
Bitter affliction was frequent
Between me and my cousins.”
Taliesin (534–599) Welsh bard
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), Oh God, the God of Formation
Context: I have not been without battle.
Bitter affliction was frequent
Between me and my cousins.
Frequent trials fell
Between me and my fellow-countrymen.
There was frequent contention
Between me and the wretched.
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
The I in the Triangle, speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California (1990)