Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Black

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.

Holly Black

Mine. The language of love is like that, possessive. That should be the first warning that it's not going to encourage anyone's betterment.

Holly Black

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

Holly Black

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

Hermann Hesse

She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to him, and spoke to him in his own language. And instead of merely winning a woman he embraced the entire world and every star in heaven glowed within him and sparkled with joy in his soul. He had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.

Hermann Hesse

Love is stronger than violence.

Hermann Hesse

Happiness is love, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

Hermann Hesse

I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of intellectual curiosity, but thoroughly slovenly and disorderly at the same time, inspired me at first with aversion and mistrust. I am not only a middle-class man, living a regular life, fond of work and punctuality; I am also an abstainer and a nonsmoker, and these bottles in Haller's room pleased me even less than the rest of his artistic disorder.

Hermann Hesse

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

Hermann Hesse

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Hermann Hesse

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

Hermann Hesse

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

Hermann Hesse

The art of love-giving and taking become one.

Hermann Hesse

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

Hermann Hesse

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Henry Timrod

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

Henry Van Dyke

A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!

Henry Van Dyke

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

Henry Van Dyke

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul, May keep the path, but will not reach the goal; While he who walks in love may wander far, Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.

Henry Van Dyke

For those who love... time is eternity...

Henry Van Dyke

In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

Henry Van Dyke

Ere thou sleepest, gently lay Every troubled thought away; Put off worry and distress As thou puttest off thy dress; Drop thy burden and thy care In the quiet arms of prayer. Lord thou knowest how I live, All I'VE DONE AMISS FORGIVE; ALL OF GOOD I'VE TRIED TO DO STRENGTHEN, bless and carry through; All I love in safety keep While in Thee I fall asleep.

Henry Van Dyke

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

Henry Van Dyke

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Henry Van Dyke

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

Joseph Addison

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

Joseph Addison

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.