Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Noon, Decline

  Walter Savage Landor (1891). “Imaginary Conversations”

• There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Lying, Path

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.225

• Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Nature, Future

• Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where she loves to lead. What various feelings come from days gone by! What tears from far-off sources dim the eye! Few, when light fingers with sweet voices play, And melodies swell, pause, and melt away, Mind how at every touch, at every tone, A spark of life hath glistened and hath gone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Sweet, Eye

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “Miscellaneous poems: Collection of 1846. Last fruit off an old tree. Dry sticks. Additional poems. Criticisms: Idyls of Theocritus. Poems of Catullus. Francesco Petrarca”, p.222

• Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Life Is, Sigh

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.300

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