John Clare - Life Quotes

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If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

John Clare

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest—that I love the best— Are strange—nay, rather stranger than the rest.

John Clare

Say maiden wilt thou go with me In this strange death of life-to-be To live in death and be the same Without this life or home or name At once to be and not to be

John Clare

My life hath been one chain of contradictions,
Madhouses, prisons, whore-shops.

John Clare

The present is the funeral of the past,
And man the living sepulchre of life.

John Clare

This world has suns, but they are overcast;
This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;
Life still expects, and empty falls at last;
Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.

John Clare