Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Sexton

I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by

Anne Sexton

Love your self's self where it lives.

Anne Sexton

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

Anne Sexton

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Anne Rice

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Anne Rice

You make me miserable. You really do, I want you to know that. Much as I love you, much as I need you, much as I can't exist without you, you make me miserable.

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 felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

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.

Anne Rice

I love the one who punishes me well.

Anna Howard Shaw

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Anna Friel

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Anita Diament

One of my great secrets was knowing I had the power to make her smile.

Anita Brookner

You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love. I cannot live without it. I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, became a caricature. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode.

Anita Brookner

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Anita Brookner

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Andrew Sullivan

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

Andrew Solomon

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

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 Malraux

Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.

Andre Maurois

The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure.

Andre Maurois

Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.

Andre Maurois

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

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.

Andre Maurois

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

Andre Maurois

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques...

Andre Maurois

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Andre Maurois

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Ambrose Bierce

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.