Charles Maturin Quotes

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

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

Charles Maturin
A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

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

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

Charles Maturin
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.

Charles Maturin
The limner's art may trace the absent feature,
And give the eye of distant weeping faith
To view the form of its idolatry;
But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted;
The thoughts--the recollections sweet and bitter,--
Th' Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved,--
Who shall restore them?

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

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

Charles Maturin