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Love59 quotes
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the end of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BCLove conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCMy mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare · 1609Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850These eyes of mine would look on only thee
In that last hour when light shall fail.
Embrace me, dear, in death! Let thy hand be
In my cold fingers pale! — Tibullus · 26 BCAll 59 quotes →Death23 quotes
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas · 1951For when the One Great Scorer
Comes to mark against your name,
He writes-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game. — Grantland Rice · 1941I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. — Homer · 700 BCThough my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night. — Sarah Williams · 1868There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea. — Thomas Hood · 1827Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838All 23 quotes →The human condition19 quotes
Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows. — Hesiod · 700 BCMan was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. — William Blake · 1805I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. — Walt Whitman · 1855Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1842Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818All 19 quotes →Life17 quotes
Everything that lives,
Lives not alone, nor for itself. — William Blake · 1789What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare? — W.H. Davies · 1911For every thing that lives is Holy. — William Blake · 1794And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius · 55 BCTell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1873All 17 quotes →Ocean and sea16 quotes
Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1871I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. — John Masefield · 1902Dark-heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime—
The image of Eternity. — Lord Byron · 1818Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land on the great efforts of someone else; not because it's an enjoyable pleasure that somebody is in difficulties, but because it's lovely to realize what troubles you are yourself spared. — Lucretius · 55 BCNae man can tether time or tide. — Robert Burns · 1791All 16 quotes →War16 quotes
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1918If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,-
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori. — Wilfred Owen · 1920God has pity on kindergarten children.
He has less pity on school children.
And on grownups he has no pity at all,
he leaves them alone,
and sometimes they must crawl on all fours
in the burning sand
to reach the first-aid station
covered with blood. — Yehuda Amichai · 1955For what can war, but endless war still breed? — John Milton · 1674Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War. — Rudyard Kipling · 1890What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. — Allen Ginsberg · 1973All 16 quotes →Men and women15 quotes
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence. — Lord Byron · 1819Alas! the love of women! it is known
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. — Lord Byron · 1819The female of the species is more deadly than the male. — Rudyard Kipling · 1911Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion. — Alfred Tennyson · 1847A Woman is a foreign land,
Of which, though there he settle young,
A man will ne'er quite understand
The customs, politics, and tongue. — Coventry Patmore · 1854All 15 quotes →Time15 quotes
Time, the devourer of all things. — Ovid · 8Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BCProcrastination is the thief of time. — Edward Young · 1742What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand? — James Bramston · 1729Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust! — Sir Walter Raleigh · 1618All 15 quotes →Seasons14 quotes
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. — William Shakespeare · 1609April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain. — T.S. Eliot · 1922Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything. — Robert Browning · 1855In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter,
Long ago. — Christina Rossetti · 1875The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling. — John Greenleaf Whittier · 1847The English winter—ending in July,
To recommence in August. — Lord Byron · 1823All 14 quotes →Passage of time13 quotes
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. — T.S. Eliot · 1915Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838The flowers withered,
Their color faded away,
While meaninglessly
I spent my days in the world
And the long rains were falling. — Ono no Komachi · 914Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. — Theognis of Megara · 541 BCNae man can tether time or tide. — Robert Burns · 1791All 13 quotes →Aging11 quotes
I am ashes where once I was fire. — Lord Byron · 1824Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. — Theognis of Megara · 541 BCYears steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the Limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. — Lord Byron · 1818No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew,
The heart less bounding at emotion new,
And hope, once crush'd, less quick to spring again. — Matthew Arnold · 1866All 11 quotes →Man and animals11 quotes
I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth. — Walt Whitman · 1855The female of the species is more deadly than the male. — Rudyard Kipling · 1911He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself. — D.H. Lawrence · 1929Near this spot
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. — Lord Byron · 1808Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all. — W.B. Yeats · 1933All 11 quotes →Nature11 quotes
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. — William Blake · 1793Great things are done when men and mountains meet. — William Blake · 1807There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the Lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron · 1818The pebble
is a perfect creature
equal to itself
mindful of its limits
filled exactly
with a pebbly meaning — Zbigniew Herbert · 1966A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks. — Lucretius · 55 BCWhere rose the mountains, there to him were friends;
Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;
Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,
He had the passion and the power to roam. — Lord Byron · 1818All 11 quotes →Nature of love11 quotes
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. — Sextus Propertius · 24 BCLove comforteth like sunshine after rain. — William Shakespeare · 1593Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. — William Blake · 1794Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,
'Tis woman's whole existence. — Lord Byron · 1819Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies.
Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies. — William Shakespeare · 1593All 11 quotes →Beauty10 quotes
Exuberance is beauty. — William Blake · 1793Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Aldous Huxley · 1917If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. — Michelangelo · 1525Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCAll 10 quotes →God and man10 quotes
All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCZeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment. — Homer · 700 BCSo, loath to suffer mute,
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear. — Matthew Arnold · 1852The only freedom the gods grant us
Is this: to submit
Of our own free will to their sovereignty
We should do just that,
Since only in the illusion of freedom
Does freedom exist. — Fernando Pessoa · 1914The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose. — Homer · 700 BCNot at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth. — Homer · 700 BCAll 10 quotes →Marriage10 quotes
Love and marriage rarely can combine,
Although they both are born in the same clime;
Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine—
A sad, sour, sober beverage—by time
Is sharpen'd from its high celestial flavour,
Down to a very homely household savour. — Lord Byron · 1821I would be married, but I'de have no Wife,
I would be married to a single Life. — Richard Crashaw · 1646Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry. — Robert Herrick · 1648In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter. — Stanley Kunitz · 1930Meek wifehood is no part of my profession;
I am your friend, but never your possession. — Vera Brittain · 1926They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake. — Alexander Pope · 1704All 10 quotes →America9 quotes
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door! — Emma Lazarus · 1883I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how
beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America. — Langston Hughes · 1926The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. — Walt Whitman · 1855O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free. — Langston Hughes · 1936America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing. — Allen Ginsberg · 1956I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. — Stephen Vincent Benet · 1927All 9 quotes →Effects of time9 quotes
Time, the devourer of all things. — Ovid · 8The ring on the finger becomes thin beneath by wearing, the fall of dripping water hollows the stone. — Lucretius · 55 BCWhat do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation. — Horace · 23 BCThe innocent and the beautiful
Have no enemy but time. — W.B. Yeats · 1933Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine
To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. — Edward Young · 1742What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand? — James Bramston · 1729All 9 quotes →Poetry9 quotes
Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards. — Homer · 700 BCI have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. — Horace · 23 BCProse is for ideas,
Verse is for visions. — Henrik Ibsen · 1871A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds. — Archibald MacLeish · 1926If you want me to weep, you must first feel grief yourself. — Horace · 19 BCNo verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace · 20 BCAll 9 quotes →Power of love9 quotes
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. — Virgil · 37 BCLove to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men. — Hesiod · 700 BCThat Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove. — Emily Dickinson · 1886All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1799Love wakes men, once a lifetime each;
They lift their heavy lids, and look;
And, lo, what one sweet page can teach,
They read with joy, then shut the book. — Coventry Patmore · 1854All 9 quotes →Travel9 quotes
The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face. — JuvenalHappy is he who, like Ulysses, has made a glorious voyage. — Joachim du Bellay · 1558They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam! — Rudyard Kipling · 1895My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face. — Juvenal · 127Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. — Horace · 20 BCAll 9 quotes →Wisdom9 quotes
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. — William Blake · 1793Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. — William Blake · 1805If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. — William Blake · 1793The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew. — John Milton · 1671Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to purchase. — William Blake · 1827All 9 quotes →Women9 quotes
O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667It's in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me. — Maya Angelou · 1978A fickle and changeable thing always is woman. — Virgil · 19 BCFour things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War. — Rudyard Kipling · 1890The greatest heroes that the world can know,
To women their original must owe. — Mary Collier · 1740O Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering upon aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou! — Sir Walter Scott · 1808All 9 quotes →World War I9 quotes
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. — Rupert Brooke · 1914If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied. — Rudyard Kipling · 1919They died to save their country and they only saved the world. — G.K. Chesterton · 1922Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie. — Ezra Pound · 1920In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below. — John McCrae · 1915I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so. — William Norman Ewer · 1914All 9 quotes →Youth9 quotes
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick · 1648Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought. — Theognis of Megara · 541 BCBliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven! — William Wordsworth · 1809Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story—
The days of our Youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. — Lord Byron · 1830O Life! how pleasant in thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like school-boys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play. — Robert Burns · 1786Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry. — Robert Herrick · 1648All 9 quotes →Alcohol8 quotes
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken. — Homer · 700 BCMan, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication. — Lord Byron · 1819There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion. — Lord Byron · 1819Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. — Lord Byron · 1819Wine is wont to show the mind of a man. — Theognis of Megara · 485 BCAnd malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man. — A.E. Housman · 1896All 8 quotes →Autumn8 quotes
Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything. — Robert Browning · 1855The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. — William Cullen Bryant · 1832Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. — John Keats · 1820Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion. — D.H. Lawrence · 1930The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1847November's sky is chill and drear,
November's leaf is red and sear. — Sir Walter Scott · 1808All 8 quotes →Being in love8 quotes
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the end of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red...
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare · 1609Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains from every mind. — William Blake · 1792With thee conversing I forget all time. — John Milton · 1667We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning · 1850All 8 quotes →Human nature8 quotes
All men have need of the Gods. — Homer · 700 BCDo I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) — Walt Whitman · 1855How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be! — Lord Byron · 1824We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth. — Homer · 700 BCHuman kind
Cannot bear very much reality. — T.S. Eliot · 1936That which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Tennyson · 1842All 8 quotes →