Thomas Browne Quotes

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.

All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history… Who would not rather have been the good thief than Pilate ?

There is no antidote against the opium of time.