Quote by Alexander Pope
You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing b

You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

Other quotes by Alexander Pope

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Change
Read Quote

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;
Alike reservd to blame, or to commend,
A timrous foe, and a suspicious friend. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Satire
Read Quote

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Learning
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Hmmm
category

My heaviness comes from the heights. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Hmmm

Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Hmmm

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then? – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Hmmm

You think you are killing me. I think you are committing suicide. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Hmmm

Random Quotes

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. – Thornton Wilder

Category:
Future

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but theyve been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs. – Scott Walker

Category:
Government

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. – Richard P. Feynman

Category:
Change

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. – Mark Twain

Category:
Banks / Banking