“Life is an incurable disease.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy…”
Quotes, 1940-1950, Stella Vespertina. (1947)
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“There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Last Essay: "1967"
1960s
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
"Preface", as translated by Barbara Green and Reihhard Krauss (2001). <!-- Edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and John D. Godsey -->
Discipleship (1937)
Context: Should the church be trying to erect a spiritual reign of terror over people by threatening earthly and eternal punishment on its own authority and commanding everything a person must believe and do to be saved? Should the church's word bring new tyranny and violent abuse to human souls? It may be that some people yearn for such servitude. But could the church ever serve such a longing?
When holy scripture speaks of following Jesus, it proclaims that people are free from all human rules, from everything which presumes, burdens, or causes worry and torment of conscience. In following Jesus, people are released from the hard yoke of their own laws to be under the gentle yoke of Jesus Christ. … Jesus' commandment never wishes to destroy life, but rather to preserve, strengthen, and heal life.
“The immortal name of Jubal filled the sky,
While Jubal lonely laid him down to die.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: But ere the laughter died from out the rear,
Anger in front saw profanation near;
Jubal was but a name in each man's faith
For glorious power untouched by that slow death
Which creeps with creeping time; this too, the spot,
And this the day, it must be crime to blot,
Even with scoffing at a madman's lie:
Jubal was not a name to wed with mockery.
Two rushed upon him: two, the most devout
In honor of great Jubal, thrust him out,
And beat him with their flutes. 'Twas little need;
He strove not, cried not, but with tottering speed,
As if the scorn and howls were driving wind
That urged his body, serving so the mind
Which could but shrink and yearn, he sought the screen
Of thorny thickets, and there fell unseen.
The immortal name of Jubal filled the sky,
While Jubal lonely laid him down to die.
“Beware an act of avarice; it is bad and incurable disease.”
Ptahhotep Ancient Egyptian vizier
Maxim no. 19.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) English poet
Dipsychus http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/dipsychusprologue.html, Pt. I, sc. v (1862).
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
"A Pox on Literature" - review of The Horror of Life by Roger L. Williams.
Non-Fiction, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism 1978-1985 (1986)
Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013) Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
The Never-Ending Wrong (1977)