Quote

To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

William Hazlitt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
Writer
Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Idea
Born
Repugnance
Ideas
Remorse
Feels
Contemplating
Regret
Dies
Lasts
Last

More quotes by William Hazlitt

Image
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
William Hazlitt
Image
Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
William Hazlitt
Image
Experience makes us wise.
William Hazlitt
Image
Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt
Image
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
William Hazlitt
Image
The public have neither shame or gratitude.
William Hazlitt
Image
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
William Hazlitt
Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
William Hazlitt
Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
William Hazlitt
Image
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
William Hazlitt
Image
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
William Hazlitt
Image
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt
Image
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
William Hazlitt
Image
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
William Hazlitt
Image
Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
William Hazlitt
Image
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
William Hazlitt
Image
Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
William Hazlitt
Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
Image
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
William Hazlitt