Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

Charles Bukowski

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Charles Bukowski

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

Carson McCullers

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

Alan Lightman

Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.

Alain Badiou

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

Alain Badiou

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Alain de Botton

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Alain de Botton

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

Alain de Botton

To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.

Al Green

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

Al Goldstein

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

David Nicholls

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

C. S. Lewis

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

C. S. Lewis

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

Cecelia Ahern

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Cecelia Ahern

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

Carrie Underwood

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

Carrie Underwood

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Carrie Underwood

When you figure out love is all that matters after all, it sure makes everything else seem so small.

Bethany Hamilton

Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

Arsenio Hall

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.

Beilby Porteus

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

Bebe Neuwirth

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing

Rollo May

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Petrarch

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love is more cruel than lust.

Alfred Noyes

Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shall love be blamed for want of faith?

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life is brief but love is LONG .

Aldous Huxley

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge