Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Frederic Amiel

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Cassandra Clare

That’s another thing,” she said. “You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love. No wonder Magnus feels he cannot open up to you, when you rely so heavily upon these other people. When love is true, you should meet each other people. When love is true, you should meet each other’s every desire, every need—A re you listening, young A lexander? For my advice is precious, and not given often…

Cassandra Clare

Love is a contradiction.

Cassandra Clare

So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace.

Cassandra Clare

Magic is dangerous- but love is more dangerous still

Cassandra Clare

to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

George Eliot

Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.

Grace Gealey

Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.

Gottfried Leibniz

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

Gottfried Leibniz

To love is to be delighted by the happiness of someone, or to experience pleasure upon the happiness of another. I define this as true love.

Gore Vidal

Love is a fan club with only two fans.

Harvey Weinstein

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Jaime Ray Newman

The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.

James Freeman Clarke

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is the voice of God whispering to you from within yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is what you are, not what you give or get!

Iyanla Vanzant

Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering

Iyanla Vanzant

When do you feel most loved? Are you willing to be loved today? Self-love is the magnet that attracts deep and profound expressions of love from others

Isaac Disraeli

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is the only duty that we know ...

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

Jeff Buckley

love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.

Jean-Paul Sartre

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love.

Georges Bizet

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Georges Clemenceau

The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.

Georges Bataille

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

George Sand

Not to love is to cease to live.

Jean Paul

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.

Jerry Spinelli

Love is big. Love makes room for conflicting feelings.