Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Charlie Chaplin

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

Charlie Chaplin

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Charles de Lint

It's easy to believe in magic when you're young. Anything you couldn't explain was magic then. It didn't matter if it was science or a fairy tale. Electricity and elves were both infinitely mysterious and equally possible - elves probably more so.

Charles Dickens

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Charles Dickens

Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Charles Dickens

Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

Charles Dickens

I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!

Charles Dickens

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

David Mitchell

It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.

Cassandra Clare

Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?

Cassandra Clare

Hotter than me? --Jace

Cassandra Clare

Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

Cassandra Clare

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

Cassandra Clare

He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.” -Jace about Simon, pg. 331-

Cassandra Clare

This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating.

Cassandra Clare

How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.

Cassandra Clare

Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad

Elizabeth McCracken

Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

Charles M. Schulz

There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.

Daniel Radcliffe

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

Alice Hoffman

Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.

Andrei Tarkovsky

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

Allison Pearson

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

Alexander Pushkin

Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.