Famous Quotes / W.H. Auden
11 Quotations by W.H. Auden
- 1. A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
- 2. Choice of attention... is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a ...
- 3. Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most wanted ...
- 4. Good can imagine Evil, but Evil cannot imagine Good.
- 5. Hunger allows no choice
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- 6. If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
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- 7. In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
- 8. The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but ...
- 9. Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
- 10. To ask the hard question is simple.
- 11. To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.