Quote

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Edith Hamilton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
Author
Classical Scholar
Historian
Mythographer
Teacher
Writer
Elbflorenz
Hamilton
Edith
Suffer
Tragedy
Suffering
Soul
Greatly

More quotes by Edith Hamilton

Image
... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.
Edith Hamilton
Image
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
Image
A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
Edith Hamilton
Image
sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
Edith Hamilton
Image
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
Edith Hamilton
Image
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
Edith Hamilton
Image
A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
Edith Hamilton
Image
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
Edith Hamilton
Image
The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
Edith Hamilton
Image
...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
Edith Hamilton
Image
Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
Edith Hamilton
Image
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton