3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.