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Top 20 Charles Robert Maturin Quotes (2025 Update)

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.”

1. “It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity’s fine fingers weave for it.”

2. “Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity’s fine fingers weave for it.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.”

3. “Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.”

4. “A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.”

5. “They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.”

6. “There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “The soul shares not the body’s test.”

7. “The soul shares not the body’s test.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “A mirth which is not gaiety is often the mask which hides the convulsed and distorted features of agony – and laughter, which never yet was the expression of rapture, has often been the only intelligible language of madness and misery. Ecstasy only smiles – despair laughs.”

8. “A mirth which is not gaiety is often the mask which hides the convulsed and distorted features of agony – and laughter, which never yet was the expression of rapture, has often been the only intelligible language of madness and misery. Ecstasy only smiles – despair laughs.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “When art assumes the omnipotence of reality, when we feel we suffer as much from an illusion as from truth, our sufferings lose all dignity and all consolation. We.”

9. “When art assumes the omnipotence of reality, when we feel we suffer as much from an illusion as from truth, our sufferings lose all dignity and all consolation. We.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Singular sentiment of pride, that can erect its trophies amid the grave.”

10. “Singular sentiment of pride, that can erect its trophies amid the grave.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.”

11. “He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “This voice of heaven thrilled us,–we seemed the pioneers of darkness, on the very frontiers of hell.”

12. “This voice of heaven thrilled us,–we seemed the pioneers of darkness, on the very frontiers of hell.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “You, – you!” he exclaimed, after a burst of sound that seemed rather like the convulsion of a demoniac, than the mirth, however frantic, of a human being – “you! – oh, there’s metal more attractive! Satan himself, however depraved, has a better taste than to crunch such a withered scrap of orthodoxy as you between his iron teeth. No!”

13. “You, – you!” he exclaimed, after a burst of sound that seemed rather like the convulsion of a demoniac, than the mirth, however frantic, of a human being – “you! – oh, there’s metal more attractive! Satan himself, however depraved, has a better taste than to crunch such a withered scrap of orthodoxy as you between his iron teeth. No!”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue, – decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so, we must acknowledge that vice has latterly grown very humble indeed.”

14. “Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue, – decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so, we must acknowledge that vice has latterly grown very humble indeed.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “When one fierce passion is devouring the soul, we feel more than ever the necessity of external excitement; and our dependence on the world for temporary relief increases in direct proportion to our contempt of the world and all its works. He.”

15. “When one fierce passion is devouring the soul, we feel more than ever the necessity of external excitement; and our dependence on the world for temporary relief increases in direct proportion to our contempt of the world and all its works. He.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “It is better to hear the thunder than to watch the cloud.”

16. “It is better to hear the thunder than to watch the cloud.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed for those who believed in a God, or acknowledged human power at all. She was as much at a loss to conceive how any good could come out of that Nazareth of her abhorrence, as an ancient geographer would have been to have pointed out America in a classical map.”

17. “She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed for those who believed in a God, or acknowledged human power at all. She was as much at a loss to conceive how any good could come out of that Nazareth of her abhorrence, as an ancient geographer would have been to have pointed out America in a classical map.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Terror is very fond of associations; we love to connect the agitation of the elements with the agitated life of man; and never did a blast roar, or a gleam of lightning flash, that was not connected in the imagination of some one, with a calamity that was to be dreaded, deprecated, or endured,–with the fate of the living, or the destination of the dead. The.”

18. “Terror is very fond of associations; we love to connect the agitation of the elements with the agitated life of man; and never did a blast roar, or a gleam of lightning flash, that was not connected in the imagination of some one, with a calamity that was to be dreaded, deprecated, or endured,–with the fate of the living, or the destination of the dead. The.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Alas! it is better to wander in perpetual sterility than to be tortured with the remembrance of flowers that have withered.”

19. “Alas! it is better to wander in perpetual sterility than to be tortured with the remembrance of flowers that have withered.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “The sublime and yet softened beauty of the scenery around, had filled the soul of Stanton with delight, and he enjoyed that delight as Englishmen generally do, silently.”

20. “The sublime and yet softened beauty of the scenery around, had filled the soul of Stanton with delight, and he enjoyed that delight as Englishmen generally do, silently.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.”

21. “Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Alas! it is too true that our souls always contract themselves on the approach of a blessing, and seem as if their powers, exhausted in the effort to obtain it, had no longer energy to embrace the object.”

22. “Alas! it is too true that our souls always contract themselves on the approach of a blessing, and seem as if their powers, exhausted in the effort to obtain it, had no longer energy to embrace the object.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.”

23. “Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.”

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Charles Robert Maturin Quote: “He possessed active, and I passive fortitude. Give him something to do, and he would do it at the risk of limb, and life, and soul,–he never murmured. Give me something to suffer, to undergo, to submit, and I became at once the hero of submission.”

24. “He possessed active, and I passive fortitude. Give him something to do, and he would do it at the risk of limb, and life, and soul,–he never murmured. Give me something to suffer, to undergo, to submit, and I became at once the hero of submission.”

— Charles Robert Maturin

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