Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
William HazlittRead
Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses the complexity of emotions, where love reigns in spite of suffering and negative feelings.
William Hazlitt highlights the struggle within one's heart, presenting a dichotomy of emotions that coexist. Despite feelings of suspicion, fear, shame, and hate, love prevails as a powerful and dominant force, characterized by its beauty and silent sorrow. This suggests that even in the presence of darker emotions, love can be a majestic yet painful experience.
Themes
LoveEmotionStruggleHeartPain
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the complexities of relationships, one might quote this to illustrate the duality of love.
More from William Hazlitt
All quotes βThe world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
William HazlittRead
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
William HazlittRead
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
William HazlittRead
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
William HazlittRead
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
William HazlittRead
Similar quotes
Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth
William ShakespeareRead
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred." - by Mohandas K. Gandhi -
Mahatma GandhiRead
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
W. Somerset MaughamRead
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction.
Ginger RogersRead
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
George HerbertRead
God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love
Richard WurmbrandRead