222 Quotes by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.

We are ourselves our happiness.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness ...

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.