Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

2. I hold it true, whate'er befall;I feel it when I sorrow most;'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all.Verse XXVII In Memoriam

3. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

4. Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. In Memoriam

5. And this gray spirit yearning in desireTo follow knowledge like a sinking star,Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

6. Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.

7. For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be. The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

8. How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use!As tho’ to breathe were life! Ulysses

9. I came in haste with cursing breath,And heart of hardest steel;But when I saw thee cold in death,I felt as man should feel.For when I look upon that face,That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,Where neither rage nor fear has place,By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!

10. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

11. Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race,That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

12. Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed. The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

13. T is not too late to seek a newer world.Push off, and sitting well in order smiteThe sounding furrows; for my purpose holdsTo sail beyond the sunset, and the bathsOf all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are:One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Ulysses

14. Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despairRise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

15. Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

16. Besser, geliebt und verloren zu haben, als nie geliebt zu haben. Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.