Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.


The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge, including the dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya (ed. 1829)


The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after,...

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after,...

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after,...

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after,...