Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Life Quotes

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That was indeed to live—
At one bold swoop to wrest
From darkling death the best
That Death to Life can give!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When I behold what pleasure is pursuit,
What life, what glorious eagerness it is,
Then mark how full possession falls from this,
How fairer seems the blossom than the fruit, —
I am perplext, and often stricken mute,
Wondering which attained the higher bliss,
The winged insect, or the chrysalis
It thrust aside with unreluctant foot.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser's coins!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich