Edgar Saltus Quotes

Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet’s crust crumbles to dust.

Edgar Saltus

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• Pain
• Dust
• Pessimist

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• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
  • Great
  • Desire
  • Safety

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Art
  • Science
  • Desire

• Since the day I was born, wrestling has sustained me and my family. It's the way my father fed me; it's the way I feed my kids. More importantly, wrestling is my greatest release. It's been such a blessing for me. I can step into the ring and let it all go - all my anger, all my frustration, all my pain.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Father

• There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Without

• I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • Desire

• And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya… And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai … He had been driven out of that Eden…because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Couple

• To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Desire
  • Intelligent

• In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Live
  • Death
  • Free

• I'm trying to look at many, many things in modern life that I believe are going faster, and I'm trying to look at why they're going faster and what effect they have on us. We all know about FedEx and instant pudding, but it doesn't mean we've looked at all the consequences of our desire for speed.

  

  James Gleick
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Trying

• It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Desire

• I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Desire

• The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Music
  • Desire

• I often get questioned about how we came up with the name 'Weebly.' We all know that all of the good domain names are already taken, and we had neither the desire nor budget to try and fit our business into a pre-existing word - so we made one up.

  

  David Rusenko
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• Frankly, I have always dreaded writing - there always seemed to be pain involved, unpleasant self-examination and a lot of fear.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Pain

• There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.

  

  Phil Schiller
  • Stop
  • Pain
  • Progress

• I'm usually attracted to more interesting types of men. I have no desire to be with a cookie-cutter Ken doll.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

  

  Channing Pollock
  • Desire
  • Confidence
  • Calm

• I want women to love Jesus! That is what I would give every single thing I have for, every earthly good I've got. That is the greatest desire of my heart.

  

  Beth Moore
  • Good
  • Women
  • Heart

• I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Happy
  • Nice
  • Car

• There were many things I could do for two or three days and earn enough money to live on for the rest of the month. By temperament I'm a vagabond and a tramp.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Money
  • Month
  • Temperament

• As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Different
  • Learning

• Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet’s crust crumbles to dust.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Dust