A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees dawn before the rest of the world.
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
