„Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.“
— Franz Kafka, book Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena
Quotes about love and making love
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„The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
„I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."“
— Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014
The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3
Context: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
„A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.“
— Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004
television address (4 March 1987)
1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)
„Find your passion and follow it.“
— Randy Pausch American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design 1960 - 2008
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Context: You will need find your passion. Many of you have already done it, many of you will later, many of you may take to your thirties or forties, but don't give up on finding it. Right, then all you are doing is waiting for the reaper. Find your passion and follow it. And if there is anything that I have learned in life, you will not find that passion in things. And you will not find that passion in money. Because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric — and there will always be someone with more. Your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. And honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard real respect from your peers. And to be thought of well by people you think of more highly up is a tremendous honor I've been granted. Find your passion, and in my experience, no matter what you do at work or what you do in in official settings, that passion will be grounded in people. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.
„Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
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„You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
„If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
Variant: if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
„There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.“
— Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963
„Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.“
— Chögyam Trungpa Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer 1939 - 1987
„The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.“
— Stephen King, book The Body
Different Seasons (1982), The Body
