H.W. Charles Quotes

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

What is art? Prostitution.

Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

New Year's Eve always terrifies me.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.