A Quote by William Hazlitt

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
English - Critic
April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

L.A. Paul

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

Everett Ruess

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

Andrew Solomon

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

St. Jerome

There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Susan Sontag

I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.

Ignatius of Antioch

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

Ian Kelsey

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Fred Rogers

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

Arnold Bennett

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover

Walter Raleigh

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Henry David Thoreau

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