“Life is (I think) a blunder and a shame.”
Source: In Hospital (1908), p. 4
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William Ernest Henley29
English poet, critic and editor 1849–1903Related quotes
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
"Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328460.500-stephen-hawking-at-70-exclusive-interview.html in New Scientist, (4 January 2012). In his comment that he "used to think that information was destroyed in black holes", he is referring to the black hole information paradox.
“Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“I think a lot of my work is about un-shaming things or de-shaming things.”
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril (1978) director
Artist Talk with Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Cinema Politica - 13 Jul 2016, at 3 Min 06 Sec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8l9GI9coH4
“In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.”
Hannah More (1745–1833) English religious writer and philanthropist
Florio, Part i.
“I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.”
Iggy Pop (1947) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
George Gamow, in his autobiography My World Line: An Informal Autobiography (1970), p. 44. Here the "cosmological term" refers to the cosmological constant in the equations of general relativity, whose value Einstein initially picked to ensure that his model of the universe would neither expand nor contract; if he hadn't done this he might have theoretically predicted the universal expansion that was first observed by Edwin Hubble.
Attributed in posthumous publications
“Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.”
John Dryden book Fables, Ancient and Modern
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 133.
“It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.”
Gregory Maguire book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Source: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
