Famous Quotes & Sayings

Florida Scott-Maxwell

One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another - that is everything.

Florence King

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Florence King

"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of "I love you very much" or the heart-slamming intensity of "I love you"?

Florence Welch

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Flora Lewis

There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.

Fetty Wap

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.

Fiona Apple

Love is a hell you cannot bear.

Fiona Apple

Love is love, and there will never be too much.

Henry Miller

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Henry Miller

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.

Henry Miller

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

Henri Bergson

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Henny Youngman

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.

Henny Youngman

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Helen Keller

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Helen Keller

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Caterina Murino

I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am lucky that I have such a good image of family life - my father and mother are still in love, still happy.

Cat Stevens

And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you

Cat Stevens

Will you carry the words of love with you?

Cat Stevens

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Cassandra Clare

I curse you," it said. "All who love you will die. Their love will be their destruction. It may take moments, it may take years, but any who look upon you with love will die of it, unless you remove yourself from them forever. And I shall begin it with her." It snarled in Ella’s direction, and vanished.

Cassandra Clare

nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes

Cassandra Clare

That’s another thing,” she said. “You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love. No wonder Magnus feels he cannot open up to you, when you rely so heavily upon these other people. When love is true, you should meet each other people. When love is true, you should meet each other’s every desire, every need—A re you listening, young A lexander? For my advice is precious, and not given often…