Famous Quotes & Sayings

Milan Kundera

Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

Milan Kundera

There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Milan Kundera

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

Mike Mason

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

Marcel Proust

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow..

Marcel Proust

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Marcel Proust

La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.

Marcel Proust

Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Marcel Proust

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

Lauryn Hill

I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there,

Laini Taylor

Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

Lisa Rinna

Love is all there is. That I know to be absolutely true.

Lisa Scottoline

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

Lisa Kleypas

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

Lisa Kleypas

Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders curving around her as if he could draw her into himself. Murmuring her name, he brought her hand to his face and nuzzled ardently into her palm, his lips brushing the warm circlet of her gold wedding band. “My love is upon you,” he whispered…and she knew then that she had won.

Johnny Depp

Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.

Johnny Depp

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

John Ray

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

John Ray

To those we love best we say the least

James Joyce

Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself

James Joyce

Winds of May, that dance on the sea, Dancing a ring-around in glee From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded, In silvery arches spanning the air, Saw you my true love anywhere? Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!

James Redfield

Love is not an intellectual concept or a moral imperative or anything else. It is the background emotion that exists when one is connected to the energy available in the universe, which of course, is the energy of God.

Laura Esquivel

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.

Lamorne Morris

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

Libba Bray

To live is to love, to love is to live.

Gary Chapman

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

Gary Chapman

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

Gary Chapman

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

Louise Erdrich

We have these earthly bodies. We don't know what they want. Half the time, we pretend they are under our mental thumb, but that is the illusion of the healthy and the protected. Of sedate lovers. For the body has emotions it conceives and carries through without concern for anyone or anything else. Love is one of those, I guess. Going back to something very old knit into the brain as we were growing. Hopeless. Scorching. Ordinary.

Jacque Fresco

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.