"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" Quotes
"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" by James Hogg is a gothic novel that explores the destructive power of religious fanaticism through the story of a young man manipulated into committing heinous acts by a mysterious figure.
classics | 406 pages | Published in 1824
Quotes
It is an amazing thing how much music steals on the mind.
I am a being that cannot be comprehended, and who cannot comprehend myself.
There is a pleasure in madness, known only to madmen.
All men are not only willing, but eager to believe whatever they wish to be true.
Our own mind is the worst prison.
The greatest of all infatuations is that of the mind, which forms its own prejudices and then believes them.
It is the nature of the mind to believe and of the will to wish.
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
The world is full of invisible things, and they are truly the substance of all that is visible.
I have my own world, a world that no one else knows.
