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Thomas Moore Quotes | Quotes said by Thomas Moore

  • Thomas Moore Quote #1

    Spring and Autumn
    Every season hath its pleasures;
    Spring may boast her flowery prime,
    Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
    Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.


  • Thomas Moore Quote #2

    A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #3

    An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #4

    And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #5

    Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #6

    Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #7

    Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
    Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
    Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,
    Live fairy-gifts fading away,
    Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
    Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
    And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
    Would entwine itself verdantly still.

    It is not while beauty and youth are thine own,
    And thy cheeks unprofaned by a tear,
    That the fervor and faith of a soul may be known,
    To which time will but make thee more dear!
    No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
    But as truly loves on to the close,
    As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets
    The same look which she turned when he rose!

  • Thomas Moore Quote #8

    Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to life what has been lost through love what we get is only a shate of its former reality? Maybe we can never succeed fully in restoring the soul to life. Maybe she will always be veiled and at least partially shielded from the rigors of actual life. Love demands a submission that is total.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #9

    Came but for friendship, and took away love.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #10

    Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #11

    Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #12

    Existují domácí bohové a naše každodenní práce je zpusobem, jak projevit uznání temto domácím duchum, kterí jsou pro udržení našeho života tak duležití. Rýžák je pak posvátným predmetem, a když tento nástroj užíváme s pécí, deláme neco pro duši. V tomto smyslu je cištení koupelny urcitým druhem terapie, protože existuje vzájemnost mezi skutecnou místností a jistou komnatou v srdci. Koupelna, která se objevuje v našich snech, je zároven pokojem našeho domu i poetickým objektem, který popisuje prostor v duši.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #13

    Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #14

    Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #15

    From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #16

    Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

  • Thomas Moore Quote #17

    Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #18

    I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
    That star on life's tremulous ocean.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #19

    It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #20

    It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

  • Thomas Moore Quote #21

    It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #22

    It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #23

    Jelikož postrádáme univerzální spiritualitu, redukujeme ji na souperící náboženství, což je závažné snižování víry na subjektivní názor, nikoli duchovní moudrost a otevrenost, a na centralistické, autoritárské církevní instituce. Zeptejte se nekoho na jeho náboženství a on vám s nejvetší pravdepodobností rekne, ke které organizaci patrí, cemu verí nebo do kterého kostela chodí. Nebude mluvit o svých metodách rozjímání ani o své službe lidstvu. Nezmíní se o svém životním poslání ani o své morálce a vizi. Lidé dnes uvažují o náboženství jako o nejaké veci, jako o instituci. Mnozí tudíž opouštejí slovo náboženství a místo toho používají spiritualita.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #24

    Každý skutecný vztah vyžaduje cas, jistou otevrenost, zranitelnost a ochotu nechat se ovlivnit a zmenit.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #25

    Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #26

    Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - Love is blind. But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #27

    Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #28

    Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
    Language fades before thy spell!
    Why should Feeling ever speak,
    When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

  • Thomas Moore Quote #29

    No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

  • Thomas Moore Quote #30

    Oft in the stilly night,
    Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
    Fond memory brings the light
    Of other days around me;
    The smiles, the tears,
    Of boyhood years,
    The words of love then spoken;
    The eyes that shown
    Now dimmed and gone,
    The cheerful hearts now broken.

    (from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain)

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