Explore Quotes by Robert Browning

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Love is energy of life.

God is the perfect poet.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!