Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
Lucretius
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lucretius
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Carus Lucretius
Darkness
Unalloyed
Pure
Disturbs
Hell
Renders
Pleasure
Blackness
Fear
Dreadful
Things
Miserable
Men
Driven
Life
Leaving
More quotes by Lucretius
For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
Lucretius
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
Lucretius
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
Lucretius
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
Lucretius
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
Lucretius
It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
Lucretius
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
Lucretius
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
Lucretius
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
Lucretius
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
Lucretius
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
Lucretius
There can be no centre in infinity.
Lucretius
For common instinct of our race declares That body of itself exists: unless This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, Naught will there be whereunto to appeal On things occult when seeking aught to prove By reasonings of mind.
Lucretius
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.
Lucretius
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
Lucretius
Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.
Lucretius
But centaurs never existed there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.
Lucretius
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.
Lucretius
Nor can those motions that bring death prevail Forever, nor eternally entomb The welfare of the world nor, further, can Those motions that give birth to things and growth Keep them forever when created there.
Lucretius
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
Lucretius
