Quote

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

John Dryden

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Dryden
Age: 68 †
Born: 1631
Born: August 7
Died: 1700
Died: May 12
Hymnwriter
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Aldwincle
Northamptonshire
Afterlife
Virtuous
Burden
Death
Thought
Nothing
Men
Insupportable

More quotes by John Dryden

Image
With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.
John Dryden
Image
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
John Dryden
Image
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
John Dryden
Image
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
John Dryden
Image
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
John Dryden
Image
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
John Dryden
Image
Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.
John Dryden
Image
How easy 'tis, when Destiny proves kind, With full-spread sails to run before the wind!
John Dryden
Image
Love either finds equality or makes it.
John Dryden
Image
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
John Dryden
Image
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
John Dryden
Image
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language.
John Dryden
Image
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
John Dryden
Image
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
John Dryden
Image
Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
Image
He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.
John Dryden
Image
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
John Dryden
Image
A knock-down argument 'tis but a word and a blow.
John Dryden
Image
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
John Dryden
Image
Dead men tell no tales.
John Dryden