Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Rice

You are alone when something like this happens. Doesn't matter how many people love you and want to help you. You are alone. When Marchent died, she was alone.

Anne Rice

I am in love with you', I responded. He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh. 'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.' It was my turn to laugh.

Andrew Sullivan

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

Andrew Solomon

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

Andre Maurois

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

Ambrose Bierce

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Alice Sebold

I fell in love with you again; While you were away - Jack Salmon

Alice Walker

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

Alice Walker

Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.

Alice Hoffman

Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

Alice Hoffman

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

Alice Cary

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can....

Anne-Marie Slaughter

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

Claudia Black

Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.

Colin Firth

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.

Colin Firth

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

Danny Wallace

I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.

Dan Savage

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

Cynthia Rowley

I've got a theory: if you love your workspace, you'll love your work a little more.

Dara Horn

Love your fellow, and not just those who agree with you.

Dan Millman

Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will see many incidents from your life in order to learn. You will review your life with two questions in your consciousness: Could I have shown a little more courage in these moments? Could I have shown a little more love? You will see where you let fear stop you from expressing who you are, how you feel, or what you need. You will see whether you were able to expand into these moments, just a little, to show love, or whether you contracted.

Dan Millman

Ships are safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You're going to get soaked at times, but at least you'll know you're alive.

Corrie Ten Boom

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.

Dwyane Wade

When you have kids, they are the consistent things in your life. They don't change no matter what's going on. They love you. They are more honest than anybody will be.

Coventry Patmore

Kind souls, you wonder why, love you, When you, you wonder why, love none We love, Fool, for the good we do, Not that which unto us is done!

Angela Carter

I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

Amy Vanderbilt

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

Andre Dubus

I think what I love most [about writing] is that feeling that you really nailed something. Sometimes with a line you feel that it really captured what it is that you had inside you and you got it out for a stranger to read, someone who may never love you or meet you, but he or she is going to get that experience from that line.

Andre Breton

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

Andre Breton

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

Ann Rinaldi

And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more....

Ann Patchett

If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.