Thomas Moore Quotes

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and inf...

Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to a...

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in th...

Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown...

... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life.I sees every fall into ignorance and confusi...

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

When soul is neglected, it doesn't just go away;

Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown...

True change takes place in the imagination.

Every season hath its pleasures;Spring may boast her flowery prime,

A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of...

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

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.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

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 t...

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.