Samuel Johnson Quotes About Repentance

• There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Causes, Chance

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.116

• Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

  Samuel Johnson

  Practice, Superstitions, Conviction

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.143

• Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Injury, Repentance

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.7

• As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Needs, Repentance

• It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and most concerns dying men. Indeed, what is necessary every hour of our life is necessary in the hour of death too, and as long as one lives he will have need of repentance, and therefore it is necessary in the hour of death too; but he who hath constantly exercised himself in it in his health and vigor, will do it with less pain in his sickness and weakness; and he who hath practiced it all his life, will do it with more ease and less perplexity in the hour of his death.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Believe, Men

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