To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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Citations by Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are deseases that a physician can cure, if he really must. Sins of the soul are shameful.
from the book "" by Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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A sentimentalist, is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
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Abnegation is simply the method man uses to stop his progress and self-sacrifice and what remains of remains of the mutilated savage.
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All repetition is anti-spiritual.
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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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