English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Walter Pater Quotes

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Walter Pater

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action. Leonard Boswell
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. Meg Ryan
Charles Grassley quote: "Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and..."
Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries. Charles Grassley
Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners. Michael Ondaatje
Quentin Tarantino quote: "Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the..."
Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. Quentin Tarantino
Joseph Barbera quote: "Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the..."
Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot. Joseph Barbera
William Blake quote: "For Mercy has a human heart. Pity, a human face: And Love, the..."
For Mercy has a human heart. Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress. William Blake
Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. Ronald Blythe
The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring. Chuck Palahniuk
The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me. Oscar Wilde
Christina Aguilera quote: "I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally."
I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally. Christina Aguilera
A camel in distress isn’t a shy creature. It doesn’t hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn’t phone up old friends and sob at them. It doesn’t mope, or write long soulful poems about Life and how dreadful it is when seen from a bedsitter. It doesn’t know what angst is. Terry Prachett
Richard Chamberlain quote: "Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it..."
Nothing is secret once you tell anyone. If you want to keep it quiet - don't tell a soul. Richard Chamberlain
Theodore Sturgeon quote: "Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?"
Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you? Theodore Sturgeon
Sarah Vowell quote: "The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief."
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. Sarah Vowell