Thomas Moore quote: "Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames."

Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Vict...
THOMAS MOORE

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.
THOMAS MOORE

All that's bright must fade,-- The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made ...
THOMAS MOORE

How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone! When warring winds hav...
THOMAS MOORE

To live with them is far less sweet, Than to remember thee!
THOMAS MOORE

Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps ...
THOMAS MOORE

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
THOMAS MOORE

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MOORE

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,
When absent souls in fancy meet.
THOMAS MOORE

If we were to bring creativity down to earth, it would not have to be reserved for exceptional indiv...
THOMAS MOORE

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simpli...
THOMAS MOORE

The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain
could not break his proud soul under.
The harp he lov...
THOMAS MOORE

'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
THOMAS MOORE

The bird let loose in Eastern skies,
Returning fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, no...
THOMAS MOORE

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOORE

With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, ...
THOMAS MOORE

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE

Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time, Soon as the w...
THOMAS MOORE

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE

Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food ...
THOMAS MOORE

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE

Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE

This speck of life in time's great wilderness This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, T...
THOMAS MOORE

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE

Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the counci...
THOMAS MOORE

Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congeal...
THOMAS MOORE

One sole desire, one passion now remains To keep life's fever still within his veins, Vengeanc...
THOMAS MOORE

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
THOMAS MOORE

Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?...
THOMAS MOORE

Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world i...
THOMAS MOORE

How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, ...
THOMAS MOORE

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See...
THOMAS MOORE

Cheek . . . Flushing white and mellow'd red; Gradual tints, as when there glows In snowy...
THOMAS MOORE

There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, ...
THOMAS MOORE

Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of...
THOMAS MOORE

From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves...
THOMAS MOORE

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
THOMAS MOORE

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
THOMAS MOORE

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
THOMAS MOORE

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wi...
THOMAS MOORE

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
THOMAS MOORE

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
THOMAS MOORE

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOORE

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
THOMAS MOORE

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
THOMAS MOORE

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
THOMAS MOORE

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
THOMAS MOORE

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
THOMAS MOORE

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But...
THOMAS MOORE

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
THOMAS MOORE

Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MOORE

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOORE

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason o...
THOMAS MOORE

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MOORE

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOORE

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thor...
THOMAS MOORE

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns...
THOMAS MOORE

It seem'd as if each thought and look And motion were that minute chain'd Fast to the spot suc...
THOMAS MOORE

Steals timidly away, Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
THOMAS MOORE

Hath the pearl less whiteness Because of its birth? Hath the violet less brightness For ...
THOMAS MOORE

For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way, He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;" N...
THOMAS MOORE

Go where glory waits thee; But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.
THOMAS MOORE

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOORE

Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly, I've only room for, Yours sincerely.
THOMAS MOORE

Find me next a Poppy posy, Type of his harangues so dozy.
THOMAS MOORE

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MOORE

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;...
THOMAS MOORE

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
THOMAS MOORE

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
THOMAS MOORE

One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
THOMAS MOORE

On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, ...
THOMAS MOORE

To Greece we give our shining blades.
THOMAS MOORE

I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class morality all the time . . . . What is mi...
THOMAS MOORE

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOORE

Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress egg...
THOMAS MOORE

To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship.
THOMAS MOORE

By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and t...
THOMAS MOORE

Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity.
THOMAS MOORE

O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock! Chosen leaf OF Bard and Chief, Old Erin's...
THOMAS MOORE

Now in his Palace of the West, Sinking to slumber, the bright Day, Like a tired monarch fann'd...
THOMAS MOORE

Together kneeling, night and day, Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine, And I--at any God's fo...
THOMAS MOORE

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem...
THOMAS MOORE

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THOMAS MOORE

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would ha...
THOMAS MOORE

I am nothing and to nothing tend, On earth I nothing have and nothing claim, Man's noblest wor...
THOMAS MOORE

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
THOMAS MOORE

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else w...
THOMAS MOORE

Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain. [Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]
THOMAS MOORE

Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night, And take my chance with Socrates for bliss, Than b...
THOMAS MOORE

To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.
THOMAS MOORE

Where bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
THOMAS MOORE

There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral ju...
THOMAS MOORE

I find the doctors and the sages Have differ'd in all climes and ages, And two in fifty scarce...
THOMAS MOORE

True change takes place in the imagination.
THOMAS MOORE

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
THOMAS MOORE

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators conside...
THOMAS MOORE

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.
THOMAS MOORE

I think it's just fantastic.
THOMAS MOORE

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
THOMAS MOORE

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
THOMAS MOORE

Young Timothy Learnt sin to fly.
THOMAS MOORE

In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.
THOMAS MOORE

But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
THOMAS MOORE

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
THOMAS MOORE

My Birthday! what a difference sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day co...
THOMAS MOORE

I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose ga...
THOMAS MOORE

In most of them, it was amphetamines. We found a drug called diazepam, which is a Valium,
THOMAS MOORE

Steals timidly away, shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
THOMAS MOORE

For our lives, incarnation means being focused on the spiritual and the eternal but bringing that fo...
THOMAS MOORE

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in l...
THOMAS MOORE

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of it...
THOMAS MOORE

Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.
THOMAS MOORE

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the min...
THOMAS MOORE

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it ...
THOMAS MOORE

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
THOMAS MOORE

To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more ...
THOMAS MOORE

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expre...
THOMAS MOORE

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threat...
THOMAS MOORE

How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without paus...
THOMAS MOORE

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour...
THOMAS MOORE

...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfulne...
THOMAS MOORE

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with...
THOMAS MOORE

Soul-making is a journey that takes time, effort, skill, knowledge, intuition, and courage. It is he...
THOMAS MOORE

Many of the arts practiced at home are especially nourishing to the soul because they foster contemp...
THOMAS MOORE

For the soul, depression is an initiation, a rite of passage. If we think that depression, so empty ...
THOMAS MOORE

One day I would like to make up my own DSM-111 with a list of “disorders” I have seen in my prac...
THOMAS MOORE

There is nothing neutral about the soul. It is the seat and the source of life. Either we respond to...
THOMAS MOORE

... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering...
THOMAS MOORE

All human symptoms and problems, when they are taken to their depth and realized in a soulful way, f...
THOMAS MOORE

art intensifies the presence of the world.
THOMAS MOORE

Maybe one function of love is to cure us of an anemic imagination, a life emptied of romantic attach...
THOMAS MOORE

Spirituality is seeded, germinates, sprouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is to be found and nurtu...
THOMAS MOORE

One effective “trick” in caring for the soul is to look with special attention and openness at w...
THOMAS MOORE

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down ...
THOMAS MOORE

Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be ne...
THOMAS MOORE

As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of tal...
THOMAS MOORE

Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a p...
THOMAS MOORE

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish...
THOMAS MOORE

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, tra...
THOMAS MOORE

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination
THOMAS MOORE

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.
THOMAS MOORE

I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was...
THOMAS MOORE

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's t...
THOMAS MOORE

It is essential that the women's preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be availa...
GWEN MOORE

Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
MICHAEL MOORE

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE

I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill ...
HENRY MOORE

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.
GREG MOORE

I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it w...
MANDY MOORE

I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
MANDY MOORE

I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I an...
MANDY MOORE

It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebr...
MANDY MOORE

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their h...
MANDY MOORE

I do think it's possible to change for the better.
MANDY MOORE

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not ...
MANDY MOORE

It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeo...
MANDY MOORE

We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I th...
MANDY MOORE

I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organizati...
MANDY MOORE

Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
MANDY MOORE

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my expe...
MANDY MOORE

Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global h...
MANDY MOORE

In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school a...
MANDY MOORE

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The fi...
MANDY MOORE

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.
MANDY MOORE

People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in...
MANDY MOORE

The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not pr...
MANDY MOORE

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potentia...
MANDY MOORE

There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytel...
MANDY MOORE

I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
MANDY MOORE

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any re...
THURSTON MOORE

The entire business world has figured out how to make huge buckets of money without hiring us to wor...
MICHAEL MOORE

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world insid...
ALAN MOORE

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
MARIANNE MOORE

I went to Cal Arts. I went to art school.
RICH MOORE

I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it'...
MICHAEL MOORE

Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE

War is a perversion of sex.
ALAN MOORE

If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When y...
ALAN MOORE

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would pr...
ALAN MOORE

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language...
ALAN MOORE

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
ALAN MOORE

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christi...
ALAN MOORE

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of i...
ALAN MOORE

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.
ALAN MOORE

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe dir...
ALAN MOORE

Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch...
ALAN MOORE

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE

Kim Kardashian is a major player coming off of a reality show, and nobody can turn a blind eye to wh...
SHEMAR MOORE

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.
GEORGE MOORE

There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book ...
SCOTTY MOORE

When you go on book tour, you're always talking about yourself and your book from the time you g...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE

No man ever repented on his deathbed of being a Christian.
HANNAH MOORE

After all there is but one race -- humanity.
GEORGE MOORE

Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most.
JOE MOORE

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
EDWARD MOORE

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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Thomas Moore

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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