| 237 Famous Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.”
Difficulties Quotes |
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“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.”
Fame Quotes |
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“Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.”
Heartbreak Quotes |
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“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.”
Nostalgia Quotes |
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“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.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes |
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“Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.”
Achievement Quotes |
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“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.”
Affection Quotes |
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“Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.”
Children / youth Quotes |
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“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.”
Communication Quotes |
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“Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.”
Courtesy Quotes |
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“The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.”
Criticism Quotes |
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“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.”
Death / immortality Quotes |
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“Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.”
Error Quotes |
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“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.”
Error Quotes |
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“The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.”
Firmness Quotes |
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“He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.”
Grave Quotes |
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“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”
Grief Quotes |
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“The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversaries of the heart... -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“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. 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 Quotes |
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“Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.”
Love Quotes |
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“The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark.”
Memory Quotes |
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“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
Music Quotes |
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“The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.”
Nature Quotes |
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“The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.”
Pursuit Quotes |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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