Life Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And life is thorny; and youth is vain”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How well he fell asleepl Like some proud river, widening toward the sea; Calmly and grandly, silently and deep, Life joined eternity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes.…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I readily believe that there are more invisible than visible Natures in the universe. But who will explain for us the family…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge