Quote by Alfred Tennyson

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when l

Summary

This quote expresses the idea that God grants us the capacity to experience love. We are given something or someone to love, as a temporary gift from God. However, when this love reaches its peak or fullness, the object of affection may no longer be present or available, leaving us feeling alone and without the love we once had. In essence, the quote highlights the transient nature of love and the potential sorrow that can accompany its loss.

Topics

Love

By Alfred Tennyson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Family

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

History

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

Design

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real.

Praise

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end.

Senses

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about an

There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

Frederick Buechner

Spirituality Inspirational Enlightening

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

James Fenimore Cooper

Slavery

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love tur

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton

Love Grief

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Genius

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage t

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

Life Nature Love Inspirational Trees Autumn Fall Encourage

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect succe

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Respect

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to w

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.