Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes about Memories

There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source. Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory! For what can wake The

There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source. Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory! For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world, Like music！

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Strong, Memories, Inspiration

"The Poetical Works of Miss Landon".

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Jobs, Memories, Past

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.198

Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only as thousands will do after us; but the actor - his memory is with his generation, and that passes away.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memories, Passing Away, Generations

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.18

We would liken music to Aladdin's lamp — worthless in itself, not so for the spirits which obey its call. We love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings, it can summon with a touch.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Love, Hope, Memories

"Romance and Reality".

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memories, Flower, Past

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memories, Mind, Doe

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175