Edgar Saltus Quotes

#1. Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet's crust crumbles to dust.

Edgar Saltus

#2. Skepticism is history's bedfellow.

Edgar Saltus

#3. As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

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#4. I think our lives are surely but the dreams
Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres,
Who as we die, do one by one awake.

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#5. [T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea.

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#6. Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

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#7. A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.

Edgar Saltus