Thomas Moore Quotes

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
That star on life's tremulous ocean.

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

When soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away;
it appears symptomatically in obsessions, addictions,
violence, and loss of meaning.

Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?

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

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

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

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