De Profundis Quotes

“I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that. I am quite candid when I say that rather than go out from this prison with bitterness in my heart against the world, I would gladly and readily beg my bread from door to door. If I got nothing from the house of the rich I would get something at the house of the poor. Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body indistinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“They are the little cups that can hold so much and no more.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at any rate, so that if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful books; and what joy can be greater?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Ad ogni costo bisogna che l'Amore rimanga nel mio cuore. Se vado in prigione senza Amore, che cosa accadrà della mia anima? Preferirei dire, o che si dicesse di me, che fui così tipicamente figlio della mia epoca da finire, nella mia perversità, e per amore di quella stessa perversità, col volgere il male i beni della mia vita, e i mali della mia vita in bene. Ciò che si dice, tuttavia, da parte mia o di altri, importa poco. Ciò che importa, ciò che ancora mi attende, ciò che ho da fare se non voglio rimanere mutilato, guasto e incompleto per il breve resto della mia vita, è di assorbire nella mia natura tutto quel che mi è stato fatto, farlo parte di me, accettarlo senza lamenti, paura o riluttanza. Il vizio supremo e la superficialità. Tutto ciò che è vissuto fino in fondo è giusto.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Molti, una volta scarcerati, portano il carcere con sé anche in libertà, lo nascondono nei loro cuori come una segreta vergogna e infine come povere creature avvelenate si rintanano in qualche buco per morire. È orribile che debbano ridursi a questo virgola ed è ingiusto, terribilmente ingiusto che la società ve li costringa. La società si assume il diritto di infliggere all’individuo castighi spaventosi, ma ha il vizio supremo della superficialità, e non arriva a comprendere ciò che ha fatto. Quando Il castigo è giunto al termine, essa lascia l'individuo a se stesso, cioè lo abbandona nel momento in cui hanno principio nei riguardi di lui i suoi doveri più alti. Essa in realtà si vergogna del suo operato, ed evita coloro che ha punito, come la gente evita un creditore a cui non può pagare il debito, o uno a cui abbia inflitto un irreparabile, un irredimibile danno. Per me dichiaro che se io mi rendo conto di ciò che ho sofferto, la società dovrebbe rendersi conto di ciò che mi ha inflitto; e che né dalla mia parte né dalla sua dovrebbe rimanere odio o amarezza.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“In one sense of the word it is of course necessary, as the Greek oracle said, to know oneself: that is the first achievement of knowledge. But to recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. 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. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Out of the reckless dinners with you nothing remains but the memory that too much was eaten and too much was drunk.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Por supuesto que debería haberme librado de ti. Me debería haber sacudido tu persona como se sacude uno de la ropa una cosa que le ha pinchado.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Mientras estuviste conmigo fuiste la ruina absoluta de mi Arte.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“There are times when sorrow
seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of
the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other,
but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a
child or a star there is pain.”
― Wilde Oscar, De Profundis

“I want to get to the point when I shall be able to say quite simply, and without affectation that the two great turning-points in my life were when my father sent me to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. I will not say that prison is the best thing that could have happened to me: for that phrase would savour of too great bitterness towards myself. I would sooner say, or hear it said of me, that I was so typical a child of my age, that in my perversity, and for that perversity’s sake, I turned the good things of my life to evil, and the evil things of my life to good.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“สำหรับศิลปินแล้ว การถ่ายทอดความนึกคิดคือภาวะสูงสุดหนึ่งเดียวของชีวิต เราดำรงอยู่ได้ด้วยการเปล่งเสียง”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Olvidé que cada pequeña acción de cada día hace o deshace el carácter, y que por lo tanto lo que uno ha hecho en la cámara secreta lo tiene que vocear un día desde los tejados.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“That is because one realises one's
soul only by getting rid of all alien passions, all acquired
culture, and all external possessions, be they good or evil.”
― Wilde Oscar, De Profundis

“So there were
Christians before Christ. For that we should be grateful. The
unfortunate thing is that there have been none since. I make one
exception, St. Francis of Assisi.”
― WILDE OSCAR, De Profundis

“But whether or not the Phrygian Faun was silent, I cannot be. Expression is as necessary to me as leaf and blossoms are to the black branches of the trees that show themselves above the prison walls and are so restless in the wind. Between my art and the world there is now a wide gulf, but between art and myself there is none. I hope at least that there is none.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“No hay una sola degradación del cuerpo que no deba tratar de convertir en espiritualización del alma.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. If any love is shown us we should recognise that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved. 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. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine, non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Suffering - as curious as this may seem to you - is the object for which we exist, since it is the only thing that allows us to know that we live, and the memory of our past feelings is necessary for us, as a guarantee and demonstration of our permanent identity.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Най-важните неща в живота са такива, каквито изглеждат, и по тази причина, дори да ти звучи странно, те често са трудни за разбиране. Но маловажните неща в живота са символи. Ние получаваме горчивите си уроци най-лесно от тях.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“My business as an artist was with Ariel. I set myself to wrestle with Caliban....”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“O supremo pecado é a leviandade.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“I see a far more intimate and immediate connection between the true life of Christ and the true life of the artist;”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Truth in Art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Ainda não tinha aprendido que, se sob o aspecto intelectual o ódio é a eterna negação, sob o aspecto emocional ele é visto como uma forma de atrofia que destrói tudo, menos a si próprio.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Eu sabia que você não o merecia. Mas o amor não é algo que possa ser negociado num mercado ou pesado na balança de mascate. Sua alegria, como as alegrias do espírito, é sentir que está vivo. O único objetivo do amor é amar. Nem mais, nem menos.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Todos os dias repetia a mim mesmo: “Devo manter meu coração cheio de amor hoje, pois de que outra maneira poderei suportar mais este dia?”.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis