Dies Quote by Edwin Arnold

“My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And dust and…

— Alfred Tennyson

“What hope is here for modern rhyme To him, who turns a musing eye On songs, and deeds, and lives, that lie Foreshorten'd in…

— Alfred Tennyson

“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“A Short Testament Whatever harm I may have done In all my life in all your wide creation If I cannot repair it I…

— Anne Porter

“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched ...…

— Mary Shelley

But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still…

— Beilby Porteus

“You that change the dull field, who give conversation to damaged ears, make dying alive, award guardianship to the wandering mind, you who erase…

— Jalaluddin Rumi

Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest…

— William Shakespeare

“Thou whose injustice hath supplied the cause That makes me quit the weary life I loathe, As by this wounded bosom thou canst see…

— Miguel de Cervantes

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

— Patanjali

“Stella, the only planet of my light, Light of my life, and life of my desire, Chief good, whereto my hope doth only aspire,…

— Philip Sidney