William Hazlitt Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
Birthday: April 10
Death: September 18
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!
source: William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.496
topic: Love, Disappointment, Passion, Disappointment Love, Asking Why
