Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haruki Murakami

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing... like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.

Harlan Ellison

[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

Harlan Coben

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

Gustav Mahler

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Gustave Flaubert

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep

Gustave Flaubert

I had, as I told you, a great passion while still almost a child. When it was over, I divided myself in two, placing on one side the soul I kept for Art, and on the other, my body, which would have to fend for itself.

Gustave Flaubert

Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing over hands yielded to a lover, all the fevers of the flesh and the languors of tenderness thus could not be separated from the balconies of great châteaux filled with idle amusements, a boudoir with silk blinds, a good thick carpet, full of pots of flowers, and a bed raised on a dais, nor from the sparkle of precious stones and shoulder knots on servants' livery.

Gustave Flaubert

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Gustave Flaubert

Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

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.

Greg Behrendt

..he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.

Greg Behrendt

Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with

Gordon Lightfoot

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

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 Dryden

Politicians neither love nor hate.

John Dryden

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

John Dryden

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

John Dryden

Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

John Dryden

Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.