"Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world."
AL
Alfred Lord Tennyson
18 quotes
Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"
"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
"I remainMistress of mine own self and mine own soul"
"The shell must break before the bird can fly."
"Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world."
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
"Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus"
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds."
"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus"
"HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
"Love is the only gold."
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more."