Robert Browning Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com

• Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Thinking, Giving

• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

• I count life just a stuff
  To try the soul's strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Strength, Soul

  'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651

• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Fate, Trying

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.442, Wordsworth Editions

• The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.62, Lulu.com

• Life is an empty dream.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Dream, Emptiness

  Robert Browning (1850). “Poems”, p.32

• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

• Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Fall

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

• Believeth with the life, the pain shall stop.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

• Have you found your life distasteful?
  My life did, and does, smack sweet.
  Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
  Mine I saved and hold complete.
  Do your joys with age diminish?
  When mine fail me, I'll complain.
  Must in death your daylight finish?
  My sun sets to rise again.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Sweet, Failure

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.42

• No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
  The heroes of old,
  Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
  Of pain, darkness and cold.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Pain, Hero

  'Prospice' (1864)

• I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
  All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Brother, Thinking

  Robert Browning (1863). “A blot in the 'scutcheon. The return of the Druses. Luria. A soul's tragedy. Dramatic romances and lyrics”, p.34

• Never the time and the place
  And the loved one all together.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Together

  'Never the Time and the Place' (1883)

• God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
  Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
  One to show a woman when he loves her.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Two

  'One Word More' (1855) st. 17

• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Men, White

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1235

• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Angel, Law

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.491, Wordsworth Editions

• That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Justice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.16, Wordsworth Editions

• Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Past, Past Life

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.162, Wildside Press LLC

• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Men

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Scar

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

• All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white-we call it black.

  Robert Browning

  Life, White, Black

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 209

• Other heights in other lives, God willing.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Height, Gods Will

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.693, Pearson Education

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