William Ernest Henley Quotes

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Where there is love there is life.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

Love is the reason to live.

Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.

Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality!

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.