De Profundis Quotes

#1. I never knew I was lost until I found myself

Sonya Davis

#2. Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

Wallace Stevens

#3. Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Everything looks so Christmassy here. I love it," she whispered. "I hope I can get some presents for Mom and Dad." Storm

Sue Bentley

#5. If I see a phrase that strikes me as ugly, I'll delete it. Or, if I find a way to say something a bit more freshly than it was expressed originally, I'll do it. Ultimately, you want to try to leave behind the best possible paragraph or sentence.

Tim O'Brien

#6. I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#7. Books can be shelved or packed away, but little girls shouldn't be.

Janiece Hopper

#8. I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity's sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.

Oscar Wilde

#9. We are much fonder of the pictures of those we love, when they are at a great distance, than when they are near to us.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#10. There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Julie Benz

#11. Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Oscar Wilde