Top 100 Dearer Quotes
#2. The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion of the wound as it lived or even its murmur of affection
Osamu Dazai
#3. The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Mark Twain
#4. We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#5. Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals. pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the market-place. It may not be purchased of the merchants, nor can it be weighted out in the balance for gold.
Oscar Wilde
#6. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi
#7. The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
Khalil Gibran
#8. And you, my friends! So few of you remain
That you are dearer daily. I rejoice
In you. How short the road has become,
That once appeared the longest road of all.
Anna Akhmatova
#9. Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Robert Montgomery
#11. I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty
William Shakespeare
#12. The Written Word
The only thing I hold dearer than myself
(and my moms, yo') ~
is the written word.
I'd give my life for that bitch,
(yo'.)
Beryl Dov
#14. What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
John Biddle
#15. The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
Thomas Carlyle
#16. God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Swami Vivekananda
#17. None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
Lord Byron
#18. The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station.
Lili'uokalani
#19. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
Woodrow Wilson
#20. The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths
Anton Chekhov
#21. The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.
Duff Green
#22. Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
Henry Ward Beecher
#23. The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.
Lucy Larcom
#24. The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
#26. A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
Charles Baudelaire
#27. One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds.
Swami Vivekananda
#28. There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
James Anthony Froude
#29. Dearer to me than a host of base truths is the illusion that exalts.
Alexander Pushkin
#31. Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#33. Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.
Marguerite Duras
#34. An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.
John Howard Payne
#35. It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.
William Shakespeare
#36. If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals
Hesiod
#39. Mock you!" repeated he earnestly, "no I revere you! I esteem and I admire you above all human beings! you are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half! you are the most amiable, the most perfect of women! and you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling.
Fanny Burney
#40. That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer.
Bernard Barton
#41. The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor.
Claudio Monteverdi
#42. Dear to us are those who love us ... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
Heloise
#44. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#46. Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
George Herbert
#47. Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary,
imperial joy and sorrow of human existence,
the dreamed as well as the lived
what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?
Louise Gluck
#48. Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
Edward Joseph Young
#49. The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
Maimonides
#50. The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It's breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker
Muhammad Iqbal
#51. Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#52. I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and tenderer sense, mine.
Charlotte Bronte
#53. To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.
Euripides
#54. Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
Laozi
#55. Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit.
Diana Gabaldon
#56. There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai Gogol
#57. Life's mystery continued to trouble me
A question came to my mind,
is freedom dearer than life?
or does it become easier to live
when life becomes difficult?
Suman Pokhrel
#58. For the gods, instead of what is most pleasing, will give what is most proper. Man is dearer to them than he is to himself.
[Lat., Nam pro jucundis aptissima quaeque dabunt di,
Carior est illis homo quam sibi.]
Juvenal
#59. It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself.
Anton Chekhov
#60. As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
Chris Gardner
#62. I think of thee!-my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree ...
Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood
I will not have my thoughts instead of thee
Who art dearer, better!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#63. He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.
John Locke
#65. So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
Roger L'Estrange
#67. A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Alexander Pushkin
#68. With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
Maxim Gorky
#69. Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".
Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.
Euripides
#70. The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
Anton Chekhov
#71. For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#72. Your scars only make you dearer to me, reminding me of what a hero you are. My eyes behold the most handsome man in the world.
Melanie Dickerson
#73. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!
Rumi
#74. I was once more struck by the truth of the ancient saying: Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#75. To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes To count the life of battle good and dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood ...
Henry Newbolt
#76. One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man .
Maxim Gorky
#77. God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.
Ben Jonson
#78. Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#79. No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
Thomas Jefferson
#80. Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning
Jean Kerr
#81. Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#82. The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.
Hosea Ballou
#83. Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.
Mary Shelley
#84. But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?
Charlotte Bronte
#85. Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#86. A juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with.
Robert A. Heinlein
#87. Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#89. One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
William Hazlitt
#91. The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.
Azar Nafisi
#92. Philosophy is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Raheel Farooq
#93. We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.
Mary Shelley
#94. Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
Oscar Wilde
#95. Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless
J.R.R. Tolkien
#96. Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#97. God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
Edward Everett
#98. Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
John Oldham
#99. As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.
Thomas Hobbes
#100. Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.
George Eliot
