Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

Edgar Allan Poe

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe

And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.

Edgar Allan Poe

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Eleanor Catton

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Eldridge Cleaver

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Eldridge Cleaver

And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Elbert Hubbard

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Elbert Hubbard

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Elbert Hubbard

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Elbert Hubbard

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Elbert Hubbard

The love you liberate in your work is the love you keep.

Elbert Hubbard

Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live.

Elbert Hubbard

Of all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.

Elbert Hubbard

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

Elbert Hubbard

Falling in love is the beginning of all wisdom, all sympathy, all compassion, all art, all religion; and in it's larger sense is the one thing in life worth doing.

Elbert Hubbard

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

True life lies in laughter, love and work.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer: The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

William Williams

Antony and Cleopatrawere right;they have shownthe way. I love youor I do not liveat all.

Any kiddies in school can love like a fool,/ But hating, my boy, is an art.