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"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." -Unknown
"Will I one day rest or am I destined to wander the desert of all creation searching for that oasis in her arms?" -Unknown
"I have a feeling that with intimacy either love is waiting to blossom, a friendship to knit or hatred to deepen"
“Some guys are chick magnets, if you know what I mean. I tend to attract cars.” -Smiling Bandit
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. -William Sloan Coffin
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water - John Dryden
How do you know when love is gone ? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet, - it's gone. - Marlene Dietrich
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. - H.L. Mencken
Hell's afloat in lover's tears. - Attributed to Dorothy Parker
True love is like a psychic experience. Everyone tells ghost stories, but few have ever seen a ghost. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. - George Bernard Shaw
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." - Thomas Merton
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
-F. W. Bourdillon
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. ~Richard Bach, Spoken by Leslie Parrish, The Bridge Across Forever
You thought you knew what pain was. You thought that whatever happened, you could handle it. You thought that you were in control. You thought wrong. Now you've lost it all. She's gone. All that's left is the numbing pain. You have to let go to stop the pain, but you can't. It's like a drug to you now. You don't want to need it, but it has become a part of you, and it won't loosen its grip on you. The control you once fought for, is gone. You have no control. And you just don't care. ~Sanjay Singh
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives." --Cyril Connolly
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." -Anonymous
"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all." ---Unknown
“For those who laugh, time is short, / For those who weep, time is long, / For those who love, time is not.” -Anonymous
"Some people care too much. I think it's called love." --Pooh
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse
All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. --Adrienne Rich
When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.-- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by white rabbits." -Schmedrick, The Last Unicorn
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.- Paul Gauguin
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.- Charles Bukowksi
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done. ~F. W. Bourdillon
Your emotions make you a monster. The question, then, is "Would you rather be a feeling monster or a non-feeling machine?". -Lincoln Nielson
"I managed to take a beautiful soul, a blooming flower, and with some terrible power that I didn't know I possessed... I withered the blossom and have perhaps destroyed one of the most precious things on the planet."
"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves." Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person." Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand." -Unknown
"Will I one day rest or am I destined to wander the desert of all creation searching for that oasis in her arms?" -Unknown
"I have a feeling that with intimacy either love is waiting to blossom, a friendship to knit or hatred to deepen"
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ~William Sloan Coffin
Piglet sidled up behind Pooh.
'Pooh,' he whispered.
'Yes, Piglet?'
'Nothing,' said Piglet,
taking Pooh's paw.
'I just wanted to be sure of you.' ~A.A. Milne
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. - Mignon McLaughlin
You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water - John Dryden
You thought you knew what pain was. You thought that whatever happened, you could handle it. You thought that you were in control. You thought wrong. Now you've lost it all. She's gone. All that's left is the numbing pain. You have to let go to stop the pain, but you can't. It's like a drug to you now. You don't want to need it, but it has become a part of you, and it won't loosen its grip on you. The control you once fought for, is gone. You have no control. And you just don't care. ~Sanjay Singh
How do you know when love is gone ? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet, - it's gone. - Marlene Dietrich
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. - H.L. Mencken
Hell's afloat in lover's tears. - Attributed to Dorothy Parker
True love is like a psychic experience. Everyone tells ghost stories, but few have ever seen a ghost. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. - George Bernard Shaw
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.
~F. W. Bourdillon
"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives." --Cyril Connolly
"Life is eternal, and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." -Anonymous
"Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all." ---Unknown
“For those who laugh, time is short, / For those who weep, time is long, / For those who love, time is not.” -Anonymous
"Some people care too much. I think it's called love." --Pooh
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse
All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. --Adrienne Rich
Once we know the number one, we believe that we know the number two, because one plus one equals two. We forget that first we must know the meaning of plus.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.- Paul Gauguin
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.- Charles Bukowksi
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. -Kahlil Gibran
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... And though unwanted; unbidden it will stir, open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have?
Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief… It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace… But we would be hollow… Empty rooms, shuttered and dank.
Without passion, we'd be truly dead.
~Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Passion”
"In vain have I struggled ... it will not do. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." -Mr. Darcy
"Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night." - Romeo & Juliet
"When I die I wish to come back as one of her tears. What man would be so lucky as to have been conceived in her heart, born in her eyes, live on her cheeks, and die at her lips."
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief, and that love is stronger than death." - Robert Fulgahm
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." - Charles Dickens
"Don't you just hate that? Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to talk about bull in order to be comfortable? That's when you know you've found somebody really special, when you can just shut the heck up for a minute and comfortably share a silence." - Pulp Fiction
Love is fed by the imagination, by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are; by which we can see life as a whole: by which and which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations. -Oscar Wilde
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -G. K. Chesterton
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -Matt Groening
I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good. -Joseph Fiennes
The one that loves the least controls the relationship. -Joseph Behrmann
I believed in love for a while. Now I believe in love kinda like I believe in the lottery. It's always happening to someone else.
Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with, and love shouldn't be one of them. –Frankie, Dream for an Insomniac
A man has not known true pain until he has torn his own heart in two, in order to keep it from becoming broken. -David Brandenburg
Why is it better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all? I don't get it. If you've never loved, you don't know what you're missing.
It's only when you've experienced it firsthand that the idea of losing it can seem so intolerably painful, so nauseatingly frightening, surely?
Ignorance is bliss, as they say.
For this reason I believe there should be separate phrases.
1. "It's better to be in love than never to have loved at all."
2. "It's better to be hit by a truck than to have loved and lost."
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