Logo
Quote by Laurence Housman
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion – death brought them into harmony. – Laurence Housman

Other quotes by Laurence Housman

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman

Category:
Religion
Author
Laurence Housman
Read Quote

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. – Laurence Housman

Category:
Failure
Author
Laurence Housman
Read Quote

Suicide is possible, but not probable hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment. – Laurence Housman

Category:
Trust
Author
Laurence Housman
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Religion
category

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. – Louis Kronenberger

Category:
Religion

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. – Malcolm Muggeridge

Category:
Religion

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. – Ulrich Beck

Category:
Religion

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Religion

Random Quotes

I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. Thats the same view I have for performing. Im performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home. – Yo-Yo Ma

Category:
Home

I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. – Sargent Shriver

Category:
Peace

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government. – Louis Farrakhan

Category:
Government

To have what we want is riches but to be able to do without is power. – George MacDonald

Category:
power