Quotes about life
life degenerates decent
Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life. Alfred North Whitehead
life past emotion
Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.
life suggestions hints
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
life math mind
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
life math offensive
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
life education believe
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski
life flower white
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot. Alfred Lord Tennyson
life dream prayer
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
life should labour
Ah, why Should life all labour be?
life self sight
Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.
life flower white
The white flower of a blameless life.
life fall love-is
God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.
life beloved
For love reflects the thing beloved.
life hurt regret
Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.
life strings harps
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
life world arms
And on her lover's arm she leant, And round her waist she felt it fold, And far across the hills they went In that new world which is the old.
life walks
Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
life deep-love lips
Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.
life dream thee
I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.
life beautiful dream
Lady, for indeed I loved you and I deemed you beautiful, I cannot brook to see your beauty marred Through evil spite: and if ye love me not, I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn: I had liefer ye were worthy of my love, Than to be loved again of you - farewell; And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love, Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.
life sweet art
Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.
life dream men
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
life littles lost
Love's too precious to be lost, A little grain shall not be spilt.
life dream prayer
The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
life gold arms
So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.
life grief soul
I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within,
life iron tears
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.
life drink
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
life long mechanic
The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end.
life may thee
We love but while we may; And therefore is my love so large for thee, Seeing it is not bounded save by love.
life lasts conquer
Love will conquer at the last.
life love-you mean
You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and pleasure in himself, Not ever be too curious for a boon, Too prurient for a proof against the grain Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love, That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.
life sweet heart
She is coming, my own, my sweet; Were it ever so airy a tread, My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthly bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red.