Edward Young: Quotes about life

Edward Young was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on life.

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“Friendship is the wine of life.”

“Ah! what is human life?
How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,
Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!
The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;
Too subtle is the movement to be seen;
Yet soon the hour is up—and we are gone.”

Busiris (1719), Act V, sc. i.

“The chamber where the good man meets his fate
Is privileg’d beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 633.

“While man is growing, life is in decrease;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 717.

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 441.

“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”

The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.

“Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new
(Not such was his) is neither strong nor pure.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 582.

“Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd;
He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 160.

“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.”

Satire VI, l. 208.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)

“Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 23.

“That life is long which answers life's great end.”

Edward Young Night-Thoughts

Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 773.