Matthew Arnold Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

• This strange disease of modern life,
  With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Sick, Disease

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

• Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Becoming, Life Is

• Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Energy, Genius

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.58, London : [s.n.]

• With aching hands and bleeding feet
  We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
  We bear the burden and the heat
  Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
  Not till the hours of light return
  All we have built do we discern.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Hands

  'Parting' (1852) l. 19

• Saw life steadily and saw it whole.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Saws, Whole Life

  Lines on Sophocles in 'To a Friend' (1849)

• Alas! is even love too weak
  To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
  Are even lovers powerless to reveal
  To one another what indeed they feel?
  I knew the mass of men conceal'd
  Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
  They would by other men be met
  With blank indifference, or with blame reproved;
  I knew they lived and moved
  Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
  Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet
  The same heart beats in every human breast!

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Heart, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics

• Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Spiritual, Greatness

  Matthew Arnold, J. Dover Wilson (1932). “Culture and Anarchy: Landmarks in the History of Education”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

• Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Light, Heaven

  1853 Poems: A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171-4.

• When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Eye, Taught Us

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Men, World

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

• Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Dream, Spring

  Matthew Arnold, Miriam Farris Allott, Robert Henry Super (1986). “Matthew Arnold”, Oxford University Press, USA

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