The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
Not to be born is the best for man.

W.H. Auden

More information about this quote

Topic

Desire The human condition

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

Death's Echo

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Auden, W. H. Death's Echo. 1937.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by W.H. Auden about desire: “The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is…”
Download
A quote by W.H. Auden about desire: “The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is…”
Download
A quote by W.H. Auden about desire: “The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews. Not to be born is…”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote by W.H. Auden

Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table.

W.H. Auden

More information about this quote
Topic
Nature of evil Evil

Author

W.H. Auden
Source
Herman Melville
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

Another quote from the 1930s

Fanaticism is always a sign of repressed doubt.

Carl Jung

More information about this quote
Topic
Fanaticism
Speaker
Carl Jung
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1935 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

Another quote about The human condition

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan

Read Lady Windermere's Fan at Project Gutenberg
More information about this quote
Topic
Stars The human condition
Speaker
Lord Darlington

Author

Oscar Wilde
Source
Lady Windermere's Fan
Medium
Play
Genre
Comedic play
Language
English
Time
1892 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.