“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Variant: The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“GAVRAS: I’d love to have his hair. He has very good curly, shiny hair.”
M.I.A. (1975) British recording artist, songwriter, painter and director
Sourced quotes, Interview with Romain Gavras for Interview (2010)
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Arthur Desmond (1859–1929) New Zealnd writer
Rival Caesars (1903)
“We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”
Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer
Source: True Love
John of St. Samson (1571–1636)
From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God