34 verified quotes from 19 writers, c. AD 1120 to 1923.
Quotes 18 to 34 of 34, page 2 of 2.
Continued from page 1, which has our introduction. Still oldest first.
What “verified” means, and what we leave out: How we verify.
To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life.
Our note: From the closing part of the novel, where Jean Valjean's life is weighed.
Verified in the full text of Les Misérables on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #135
Painted the same decade: A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), Edgar Degas, 1865
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for.
Our note: Marmee's advice to Meg and Jo.
Verified in the full text of Little Women on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #514
Painted the same decade: The Spanish Singer, Edouard Manet, 1860
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in innocent sufferings.
Our note: From Pierre's dream during his captivity, when he glimpses what life is for.
Verified in the full text of War and Peace on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2600
Painted the same decade: Woman with a Parrot, Gustave Courbet, 1866
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be—and whenever I look up there will be you.
Our note: Gabriel Oak's first, unsuccessful proposal to Bathsheba Everdene.
Verified in the full text of Far from the Madding Crowd on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #107
Painted the same decade: Springtime, Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873
I shall do one thing in this life—one thing certain—that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die
Our note: Gabriel Oak to Bathsheba.
Verified in the full text of Far from the Madding Crowd on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #107
Painted the same decade: The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, Edouard Manet, 1874
Love all God's creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God's light.
Our note: From the elder Zossima's teachings.
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930), Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth
Our note: From the teachings of the elder Zossima.
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: By the Seashore, Auguste Renoir, 1883
…love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Our note: The elder Zossima to a woman who dreams of loving humanity but shrinks from serving one person.
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: Wheat Field with Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Our note: Zossima's answer to the question 'What is hell?'
Verified in the full text of The Brothers Karamazov on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #28054
Painted the same decade: The Organ Rehearsal, Henry Lerolle, 1885
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.
Our note: Dorothy explains to the Scarecrow why she wants to go back to Kansas.
Verified in the full text of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #55
Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.
Our note: The narrator on Buck's devotion to John Thornton.
Verified in the full text of The Call of the Wild on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #215
Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.
Our note: The closing lines of the story of Della and Jim.
Verified in the full text of The Gift of the Magi on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #2776 · Collected in The Four Million
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way!
Our note: The Mole, passing near his old burrow, feels the pull of home.
Verified in the full text of The Wind in the Willows on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #289
Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; …
Our note: The final paragraph of the sequel, on love arriving quietly.
Verified in the full text of Anne of Avonlea on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #47
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Our note: From "On Work." The book is a series of answers given by the prophet Almustafa.
Verified in the full text of The Prophet on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #58585
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Our note: From "On Children."
Verified in the full text of The Prophet on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #58585
But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you
Our note: From the section on marriage.
Verified in the full text of The Prophet on Project Gutenberg · Project Gutenberg ebook #58585
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