Charles Robert Maturin Quotes

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.

They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.

The soul shares not the body's test.

Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.