Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hermann Hesse

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Helen Prejean

Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Helen Rowland

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Haruki Murakami

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

Gustave Flaubert

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.

Gustave Flaubert

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports.... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

John Dryden

Calms appear, when Storms are past; Love will have his Hour at last: Nature is my kindly Care; Mars destroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

John Mayer

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

John Lennon

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

John Lennon

Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.

John Lennon

We had one thing in common - we were in love. But love is just a gift, and it doesn't answer everything and it's like a precious plant that you have to nurture and look after and all that.

John Lennon

I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.

John Lennon

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

John Lennon

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

John Lennon

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

John Lennon

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them.

John Lennon

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

John Lennon

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

John Lennon

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

John Lennon

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

John Lennon

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

John Lennon

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

John Lennon

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

John Lee Hooker

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.