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American writer 1950Related quotes
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts
or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
Dine hunc ardorem mentibus addunt,
Euryale, an sua cuique deus fit dira cupido?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book IX, Lines 184–185 (tr. Fagles)
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
Diary entry (18 August 1908), quoted in The Later Years of Thomas Hardy (1930), by Florence Emily Hardy, ch. 10, p. 133
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p
“The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.”
Stefan Zweig book Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity (1939)
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
“Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed in emails in 1999, as debunked at "Malice of Absence" at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp#MX2FyfdMLHissI4T.99 <br class="br">This statement has been attributed to others before Einstein; its first attribution to Einstein appears to have been in an email story that began circulating in 2004. See the Urban Legends Reference Pages http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp for more discussion. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: Evil is the absence of God.
“Unspoken is whatever
we have not desired with all our heart.”
Alexis Karpouzos (1967)
Source: The self-criticism of science