Suspiria De Profundis and Other Writings Quotes

“no moment was his sense of the complete suspension and pause in ordinary human concerns so full and affecting, as at that moment when the suspension ceases, and the goings-on of human life are suddenly resumed.”
― Thomas de Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis and Other Writings

“But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion—jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred—which will create a hell within him; and into this hell we are to look.”
― Thomas de Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis and Other Writings