Life Quotes Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”

“Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.”

“Love, and you shall be loved.”

“The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.”

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”

“Language is fossil Poetry.”

“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”

“You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.”

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”

“I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?”

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

“It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.”