“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper (2004)
“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
As quoted in Beauty in Bloom : A Collection of Beautiful Inspirations (2009) by Natalie Bloom, p. 23
Attributed to Laozi in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971) by Marcel Haedrich
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.”
"Nature Boy" (1948)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
His assertion to Joe Romersa, of how his lyrics should be corrected, saying that "To be loved in return, is too much of a deal, and that has nothing to do with love."
Context: While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."
“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.”
“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”
Variant: You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Source: Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
Attributed to Irving as early as 1883. [Hit and miss : a story of real life, Angie Stewart, Manly, Chicago, J.L. Regan, 1883, i, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435018229575?urlappend=%3Bseq=7] However, it does not seem to appear in Irving's known works. Other citations from the same year leave the quotation unattributed. [Henry S. (ed.), Clubb, The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration, Volume 1, Universal Peace Union, 1883, 125, Philadelphia, https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu84AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA125] [The Australian Women's Magazine and Domestic Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (May 1883), 1883, Melbourne, 435, https://books.google.com/books?id=mq0sAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA435]. A similar passage is found in a pseudonymous novel published two years earlier in 1881: "Julia knew that sacrifices to patience are not in vain. Although they often do not produce the happiness for which they are made, they will, always, flow back and soften and purify the heart of the one who makes them". [Illma, Or, Which was Wife?, Miss, M.L.A., Cornwell & Johnson, 1881, 239, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435017658592?urlappend=%3Bseq=245]
Disputed
“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
Variant: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Source: Discours de réception, Séance De L'académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps' work on the Suez Canal.
Context: To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
Source: What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
“Love asks me no questions, and gives me endless support.”
“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”
Variant: Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Source: The History of Love (2005), P. 11
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
Source: The Princess Bride
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
BBC obituary (2004)
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does”
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
Variant: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun
“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”
1960s, (1963)
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/
“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”
Source: Love Poems and Sonnets
Duke, Miracles, p. 2
Source: 1990s, The Notebook (1996)
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“The love that is not all pain is not all love.”
El amor que no es todo dolor, no es todo amor.
Voces (1943)
“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
“Granted we known each other for some time
but it don't take a whole day to recognize sunshine”
"The Light" (Track 7)
Albums, Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
“The important thing is to be nothing.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
"Princess Diana: 10 most inspiring quotes from the 'people's princess'", Hello Magazine, Daily News (1 July 2015)
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
As quoted in The 32d Infantry Division in World War II (1956) by Harold Whittle Blakeley, p. 3
“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.”
On Mac OS X's Aqua user interface, as quoted in Fortune magazine (24 January 2000)
2000s
“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.”
This has been attributed to Mansfield on the internet, but no published source by her or any other author has been located.
Misattributed
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
"Wild Geese"
Dream Work (1986)
Context: You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
“To live is to not know that one is living”
Diary (20 April, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 262
Context: Sometimes I start looking at the mirror and examining myself, feature by feature: eyes, mouth, shape of the forehead, eyelids curve, the face line... And this vulgar and hideous-looking, grotesque and miserable amalgam, would it know how to do verses? Oh, no! There is something else … but what? After all, why think? To live is to not know that one is living... Why don't I forget that I am living... to live?
“I like the saying "The world is as you are."”
The Circle, p. 21
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I like the saying "The world is as you are." And I think films are as you are. That's why, although the frames of a film are always the same — the same number, in the same sequence, with the same sounds — every screening is different. The difference is sometimes subtle but it's there. It depends on the audience. There is a circle that goes from the audience to the film and back. Each person is looking and thinking and feeling and coming up with his or her own sense of things. And it's probably different from what I fell in love with.
So you don’t know how it's going to hit people. But if you thought about how it's going to hit people, or if it's going to hurt someone, or if it's going to do this or do that, then you would have to stop making films. You just do these things that you fall in love with, and you never know what's going to happen.
“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”
That frightens all the childish
And extinguishes fear in the wise.
§ 26
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Time Is
Undated
Source: Time Is...
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice,
But for those who love,
Time is Eternity. (Music and Other Poems, 1904)
Source: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Source: Family Matters
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Variant: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
"The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Source: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
Variant: In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will no longer be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
Source: Pride And Prejudice
Variant: To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Source: Les Misérables
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
Variant: Though lovers be lost love shall not.
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
“We must be our own before we can be another's.”
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
Source: Mad Love
