13 Robert Browning Quotes on Life

Robert Browning quotes on life

13. My sun sets to rise again.

14. Never the time and the place And the loved one all together!

20. One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

21. What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:

24. How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses Forever in joy!

28. Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!

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

35. 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!'

36. Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark! Rather I prize the doubt Low kinds exist without, Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark. Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast; Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men.

48. White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice.

50. Love is energy of life.

53. Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

54. Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.