“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break the heart.”

—  William Wordsworth

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else would overset the brain, or break…" by William Wordsworth?
William Wordsworth photo
William Wordsworth306
English Romantic poet 1770–1850

Related quotes

Pink (singer) photo

“True love, true love.
It must be true love.
Nothing else can break my heart like
True love, true love.
It must be true love.
No one else can break my heart like you.”

Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter

True Love, featuring Lily Allen, written by Pink, Greg Kurstin and Lily Allen
Song lyrics, The Truth About Love (2012)

Isabel Allende photo

“… a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”

Isabel Allende (1942) Chilean writer

William Wordsworth photo

“The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;
perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

Stanza 3. <br class="br"> She Was a Phantom of Delight http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww259.html (1804)

Laurell K. Hamilton photo

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

Source: A Lick of Frost

Walter Rauschenbusch photo

“If the question of the distribution of wealth were solved for all society and all lived in average comfort and without urgent anxiety, the question would still be how many would be at peace with their own souls and have that enduring joy and contentment which alone can make the outward things fair and sweet and rise victorious over change.”

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.2 The Social Aims of Jesus, p. 47

William Shakespeare photo

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew

Source: The Taming of the Shrew

Emily Dickinson photo

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

L. Frank Baum photo

“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Context: "All the same," said the Scarecrow, "I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one."
"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."

Richard Owen Cambridge photo

“What is the worth of any thing,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?”

Richard Owen Cambridge (1717–1802) British poet

"Learning: A Dialogue", line 23; in The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge (1803), Miscellaneous Verses, p. 10

Related topics