Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

My sun sets to rise again.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

From the end spring new beginnings.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

The sun is new each day.

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.