“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Brian W. Aldiss book Hothouse
Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
“The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free.”
The Devil's Progress (1849)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The tomb of him who would have made
The world too glad and free." by Thomas Kibble Hervey?
Thomas Kibble Hervey7
British poet and critic 1799–1859Related quotes
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Spirit and the Angel of Death from Friendship’s Offering, 1827
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)
“Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!”
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870–1944) British playwright, poet and artist
"Reason Enough", line 18; from The Sea is Kind (London: Grant Richards, 1914) p. 75.
“A breath that fleets beyond this iron world
And touches him who made it.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Harold, Act iii, Scene 2
“The world is growing old;
Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold?”
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer
As quoted in obituaries (7 September 1962)
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
Who Put Jesus on the Cross, p. 170
“My mortal remains would speak from the tomb.”
Sai Baba of Shirdi (1836–1918) Hindu and muslim saint
Eleven important sayings