Quotes from Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
All Life needs for life is possible to will.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson