For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.Įvery single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster’s scales. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. My gods dwell in temples made with hands. It was always once springtime in my heart.

There was no pleasure I did not experience. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. Nobody is worthy to be loved… or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. Most people live for love and admiration. The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling. Let these quotes inspire you! De Profundis QuotesĮvery one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. We compiled a list of 17 quotes that best summarise the message of Oscar Wilde in De Profundis. If you’re looking for the best De Profundis quotes you’ve come to the right place.

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