Matthew Arnold Quotes about Life

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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Matthew Arnold

Life, Becoming, Life Is

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Matthew Arnold

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Sick, Disease

'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Beautiful, Dream

"Dover Beach" l. 35 (1867)

Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Energy, Genius

Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.58, London : [s.n.]

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Spiritual, Greatness

Matthew Arnold, J. Dover Wilson (1932). “Culture and Anarchy: Landmarks in the History of Education”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Dream, Spring

Matthew Arnold, Miriam Farris Allott, Robert Henry Super (1986). “Matthew Arnold”, Oxford University Press, USA

With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Light, Hands

'Parting' (1852) l. 19

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual deeds . . . Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today- Ah, do not we, Wanderer, await it too?

Matthew Arnold

Life, Light, Heaven

1853 Poems: A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171-4.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Men, World

Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

When Byron's eyes were shut in death, We bow'd our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul Had felt his like a thunder roll. . . . We watch'd the fount of fiery life Which serv'd for that Titanic life.

Matthew Arnold

Life, Eye, Taught Us

Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!

Matthew Arnold

Life, Heart, Men

Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.167, Delphi Classics