Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

• If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Inspiring, Sympathy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

• Into each life some rain must fall.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Rain, Fall

  "The Rainy Day" st. 3 (1842)

• Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

• It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Gratitude, Rain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.94

• Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Self Improvement, Noble

• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Life, Confused

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2083, Delphi Classics

• Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Dream

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

• Thus at the flaming forge of life
  Our fortunes must be wrought;
  Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
  Each burning deed and thought!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Burning, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.37

• Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Masculine And Feminine, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1061, Delphi Classics

• That was the first sound in the song of love!
  Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
  Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
  Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
  And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
  The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Song, Fate

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed”, p.108

• Ah, how skillful grows the hand
  That obeyeth Love's command!
  It is the heart, and not the brain,
  That to the highest doth attain,
  And he who followeth Love's behest
  Far excelleth all the rest!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.127

• There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Life, Wings

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1961, Delphi Classics

• Learn to labour and to wait.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Waiting, Labour

  'A Psalm of Life' (1838).

• Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Snares, Quicksand

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.89

• How can I tell the signals and the signs
  By which one heart another heart divines?
  How can I tell the many thousand ways
  By which it keeps the secret it betrays?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Heart, Secret

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.242

• Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
  Life is but an empty dream!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Dream, Numbers

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Color, Names

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

• Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.
  To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,
  As in a foundering ship.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Self, Ships

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.352

• O thou child of many prayers!
  Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!
  Care and age come unawares!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Prayer, Children

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.52

• Does not all the blood within me
  Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
  As the springs to meet the sunshine.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Spring, Sunshine

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.209, Library of America

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