Quote

The grave is but the threshold of eternity. What a world were this, how unendurable its weight, If they whom death hath sundered, did not meet again!

Robert Southey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Southey
Age: 68 †
Born: 1774
Born: August 12
Died: 1843
Died: March 21
Biographer
Historian
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
Bristol
Gloucestershire
Robert Southey
Grave
Graves
Eternity
Weight
Sundered
Meet
Unendurable
Death
Headstone
World
Threshold
Hath

More quotes by Robert Southey

Image
What will not woman, gentle woman dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Robert Southey
Image
Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.
Robert Southey
Image
Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.
Robert Southey
Image
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Robert Southey
Image
The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.
Robert Southey
Image
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
Robert Southey
Image
Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed if well disposed, only more unhappy.
Robert Southey
Image
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
Robert Southey
Image
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
Robert Southey
Image
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
Robert Southey
Image
By writing much, one learns to write well.
Robert Southey
Image
Faith in the hereafter is as necessary for the intellectual as the moral character and to the man of letters, as well as to the Christian, the present forms but the slightest portion of his existence.
Robert Southey
Image
I can remember, with unsteady feet, Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long Have lost their power to please which when I see them, Raise only now a melancholy wish I were the little trifler once again, Who could be pleas'd so lightly.
Robert Southey
Image
If you would be pungent, be brief.
Robert Southey
Image
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
Image
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
Robert Southey
Image
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Robert Southey
Image
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Robert Southey
Image
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
Robert Southey
Image
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade the parish is his field of active service.
Robert Southey