Top 120 Thomas Moore Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”

— Thomas Moore

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2. “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

— Thomas Moore

3. “What’s important is finding out what works for you.”

— Thomas Moore

4. “Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

— Thomas Moore

5. “Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.”

— Thomas Moore

6. “The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

— Thomas Moore

7. “Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.”

— Thomas Moore

8. “A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.”

— Thomas Moore

9. “When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem’ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.”

— Thomas Moore

10. “The key to seeing the world’s soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”

— Thomas Moore

11. “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.”

— Thomas Moore

12. “Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”

— Thomas Moore

13. “Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don’t bring to them enough imagination.”

— Thomas Moore

14. “A calling is the sense that you are on this earth for a reason, that you have a destiny, no matter how great or small.”

— Thomas Moore

15. “Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.”

— Thomas Moore

16. “Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.”

— Thomas Moore

17. “Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.”

— Thomas Moore

18. “Care of the soul begins with observance of how the soul manifests itself and how it operates. We can’t care for the soul unless we are familiar with its ways. Observance is a word from ritual and religion. It means to watch out for but also to keep and honor, as in the observance of a holiday.”

— Thomas Moore

19. “A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.”

— Thomas Moore

20. “It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.”

— Thomas Moore

21. “Your first task is to find the place where your soul is at home.”

— Thomas Moore

22. “You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”

— Thomas Moore

23. “Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”

— Thomas Moore

24. “Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be necessary to stretch the heart wide enough to embrace contradiction and paradox.”

— Thomas Moore

25. “Love doesn’t demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you’d prefer.”

— Thomas Moore

26. “Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.”

— Thomas Moore

27. “Come o’er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where’er it goes.”

— Thomas Moore

28. “You have to make your own world, instead of succumbing to the one that presses on you. You have to turn the tables on what appears to be fate or the full weight of society. Against the greatest odds, you have to keep your wits about you and refuse to surrender to anyone or anything less than divine.”

— Thomas Moore

29. “Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body’s changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.”

— Thomas Moore

30. “With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence – o’er and o’er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!”

— Thomas Moore

31. “Came but for friendship, and took away love.”

— Thomas Moore

32. “To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! ’tis delicious to hate you!”

— Thomas Moore

33. “The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it’s the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.”

— Thomas Moore

34. “This is the right time, and this is the right thing.”

— Thomas Moore

35. “A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.”

— Thomas Moore

36. “Soul’ is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves.”

— Thomas Moore

37. “One day I would like to make up my own DSM-111 with a list of “disorders” I have seen in my practice. For example, I would want to include the diagnosis “psychological modernism,” an uncritical acceptance of the values of the modern world. It includes blind faith in technology, inordinate attachment to material gadgets and conveniences, uncritical acceptance of the march of scientific progress, devotion to the electronic media, and a life-style dictated by advertising.”

— Thomas Moore

38. “The past, the future: – two eternities!”

— Thomas Moore

39. “I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.”

— Thomas Moore

40. “Spirituality is seeded, germinates, sprouts and blossoms in the mundane. It is to be found and nurtured in the smallest of daily activities.”

— Thomas Moore

41. “The basic contribution one can make to one’s community is not to add to the general unconsciousness of the time.”

— Thomas Moore

42. “The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.”

— Thomas Moore

43. “Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.”

— Thomas Moore

44. “Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...”

— Thomas Moore

45. “And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.”

— Thomas Moore

46. “Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.”

— Thomas Moore

47. “From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.”

— Thomas Moore

48. “That is the point of the night sea journey – to be born into yourself. There, you are in the amniotic fluid, in an alchemical substance once again. You are journeying toward your own life. You are preparing for your fate. The promise is exhilarating, but the dangers are extreme. You have to avoid being just one of the crowd and instead take the chance of being born an individual. Jonah.”

— Thomas Moore

49. “Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard’s ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn’s sob’rer time.”

— Thomas Moore

50. “There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.”

— Thomas Moore