77 Quotes by Amelia Barr

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.