“She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.”

— John Dryden, book The Hind and the Panther

Pt. I, line 4.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "She feared no danger, for she knew no sin." by John Dryden?

John Dryden photo

John Dryden196

English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

Related quotes

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

Iain Pears book The Dream of Scipio

Source: The Dream of Scipio

“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

“He knew she was there by the joy and fear that overwhelmed his heart.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Pt. I, ch. 9
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)

“She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.”

Joanne Greenberg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.”

Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

“Because the sin which she encouraged him to commit was in all likelihood a sin of sensuality, woman is more intensely exposed to the danger of descent into stark carnality. And when this happens, she always becomes once again the evil seductress, whereas, paradoxically, God has specifically enjoined her to combat evil.”

Edith Stein (1891–1942) Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher

Essays on Woman (1996), The Separate Vocations of Man and Woman According to Nature and Grace (1932)

“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“She had eyes like strange sins.”

Raymond Chandler book The High Window

Source: The High Window

“At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone-she fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Related topics