Quotes by Thomas Campbell

The sea, the sea, the open sea, the blue, the fresh, the ever free!

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.

The reason firm, the temperate will, endurance, foresight, strength, and skill.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing is the poetry of the East; it has neither subject nor object.

To sleep after sunrise was deemed a want of energy.

To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

To bear is to conquer our fate.

The world is all a flea's nest, and things are coming to a worse pass every day.

To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind; all are not fit with them to stir and toil.

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever.

Though absent, you are ever near, still missed, still loved, and ever dear.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it uses an enforced ceremony.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.