5 Quotes & Sayings By Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin was a British physician and the author of the novel Melmoth the Wanderer. He was born in Dublin in 1788 and died in 1867. His mother's family had been exiled from France for their Tory sympathies. Maturin received his medical training at Edinburgh University and practiced successfully as a surgeon at Dalkey Island, near Dublin, before emigrating to London Read more

In 1822 he published his first novel, The Wanderer, which was a best-seller. His subsequent novels included Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), The Evil Genius (1825), The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1826), The Non-Resident (1827), The Mysterious Warning (1828), The Wandering Jew (1830), A Star in the West (1831) and The Four Marriages (1833). He also wrote a number of medical works including On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted...
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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. Charles Robert Maturin
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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. Charles Robert Maturin
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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. Charles Robert Maturin
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion. . Charles Robert Maturin