Quote

Life is as serious a thing as death.

Philip James Bailey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
Serious
Death
Thing
Life

More quotes by Philip James Bailey

Image
It matters not how long we live but how.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The heart is its own Fate.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The value of a thought cannot be told.
Philip James Bailey
Image
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
Philip James Bailey
Image
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
Philip James Bailey
Image
I cannot be content with less than heaven.
Philip James Bailey
Image
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
Philip James Bailey
Image
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Philip James Bailey
Image
A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
Philip James Bailey
Image
Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
Philip James Bailey
Image
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Philip James Bailey
Image
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
Philip James Bailey
Image
My favoured temple is an humble heart.
Philip James Bailey
Image
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Philip James Bailey