Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Quote by W H Auden

Topics: Impatience Quotes, Sin Quotes

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

Let mortals beware of words For with words we lie Can speak peace When we...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most...

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Now is the age of anxiety.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social...

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as...

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our...

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep...

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep...

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep...

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep...

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to...

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to...