Thomas Browne
Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Brownewas an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Browne's literary works are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffering from melancholia, his writings are also characterised by wit...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1605
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
To be content with death may be better than to desire it.
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
(Death is) A leap into the dark.
Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back
A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.