De Profundis Quotes

“El mundo siempre había amado al Santo como lo más cercano posible a la perfección de Dios. Cristo, por un divino instinto que había en él, parece haber amado siempre al pecador como lo más cercano posible a la perfección del hombre.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I had disgraced that name eternally. I had made it a low by-word among low people. I had dragged it through the very mire. I had given it to brutes that they might make it brutal, and to fools that they might turn it into a synonym for folly.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“La testa della Medusa che trasforma i viventi in pietra, tu potesti vederla in uno specchio.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Recuerda que la imaginación es esa cualidad que nos permite ver las cosas y las personas en sus relaciones reales e ideales.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“In your case, one as either to give up to you or give you up. There was no other alternative.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Allí donde hay Dolor hay terreno sagrado.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Volmaakt vrij zijn, en te zelfder tijd volkomen in de ban zijn van de wet, dat is de eeuwige paradox van het menselijk leven, zoals wij die iedere moment in praktijk brengen (...)”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“reconocer que el alma de un hombre es incognoscible es el logro último de la Sabiduría.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The poor are wise, more charitable, more kind, more sensitive than we are. In their eyes prison is a tragedy in a man’s life, a misfortune, a casuality, something that calls for sympathy in others. They speak of one who is in prison as of one who is ‘in trouble’ simply. It is the phrase they always use, and the expression has the perfect wisdom of love in it.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image. Every 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.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“But while there were times when I rejoiced in the idea that my sufferings were to be endless, I could not bear them to be without meaning. Now I find hidden somewhere away in my nature something that tells me that nothing in the whole world is meaningless, and suffering least of all. That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, is Humility.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Of all things it is the strangest [sorrow]. One cannot acquire it, except by surrendering everything that one has. It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Of course I know that to ask alms on the highway is not to be my lot, and that if ever I lie in the cool grass at night-time it will be to write sonnets to the moon.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis