Thomas Browne Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Desire, May

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence”, p.78

• Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own, I may more easily discuss them; for in mine own reason, and within myself, I can command that which I cannot entreat without myself, and within the circle of another.

  Thomas Browne

  Real, Circles, Sorrow

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Including His Life and Correspondence”, p.97

• Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Victory, Desire

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 6.

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