William Wordsworth Quotes

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Hell in a harness

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

That is a long word: forever!

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

Hell is indefinite.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

I spent some time in Hell.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape