Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Conrad

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Joseph Conrad

There is a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride, beyond mere skill, almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art - which is art.

Joseph Conrad

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

Joshua Bell

You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Joshua Harris

Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back

Joshua Harris

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

Josh Turner

You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

Joseph de Maistre

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

Joseph de Maistre

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

Joseph de Maistre

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

Joseph Fiennes

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

Joseph Fiennes

I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.

Kate Mosse

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

Karolina Kurkova

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

Leona Lewis

I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

Leonard Cohen

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Leonard Cohen

Love is the only engine of survival

Leonard Cohen

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

Leonard Cohen

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

Leonard Cohen

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Leonard Cohen

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Leonard Cohen

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time

Leonard Cohen

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

Leonard Cohen

I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time's Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of There ain't no cure for love

Leonard Cohen

It's you my love, you who are the stranger.

Leonard Cohen

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

Leonard Cohen

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Laz Alonso

When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.

Lawrence Welk

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

Layne Staley

You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.

Laure Manaudou

Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

Lauren Bacall

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Lauren Bacall

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.