
“The first true love is always the last one.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
A collection of quotes on the topic of family, love, friendship, loyalty.
“The first true love is always the last one.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
Last title displayed on the film.
This Is It
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Variant: Love all, trust a few.
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
“I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?”
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Context: I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
“Overcome the devils with a thing called love.”
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
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.
“I love pressure. I love being on the edge of a cliff. Yahooi.”
Other quotes, 2016
Original: (ja) プレッシャー大好き、崖っぷち大好き、ヤッホーイ。
Source: Interview with Shuzo Matsuoka, aired 28 November 2016 in 報道ステーション (Hodo Station) on TV Asahi.
Other quotes, 2018
Original: (ja) 特に自分からコメントを常に発信したいなとは思ってないし、何よりも、自分がたくさんの方々に愛してもらってるのはすごく分かってるので…うん…あのー、何だろう? 特別自分から何かをしなくてもいいかなという風に思っています。
Source: Hanyu about his absence from social media in an interview https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/video/detail/yuzuru-hanyu-happy-to-say-nothing-at-all/ at the Olympics 2018, published 27 February 2018 on the Olympic Channel. (Retrieved 18 September 2020)
“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
Variant: Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
“Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.”
“I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.”
Variant: I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Variant: You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect — you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break — her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.
“Pain is just a consequence of love.”
My Everything (2014)
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Speaking at his concert the day after the Manchester Arena bombing (23 May 2017) https://www.businessinsider.com/harry-styles-stops-concert-speech-on-manchester-attack-2017-5?IR=T
“I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying”
Gardens and orchards in the old Poland, "Aura" 11, 1987-11, p.17-18. http://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/508860
'Where Do We Go From Here?" as published in Where Do We Go from Here : Chaos or Community? (1967), p. 62; many statements in this book, or slight variants of them, were also part of his address Where Do We Go From Here?" which has a section below. A common variant appearing at least as early as 1968 has "Returning violence for violence multiplies violence..." An early version of the speech as published in A Martin Luther King Treasury (1964), p. 173, has : "Returning hate for hate multiplies hate..."
1960s
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Context: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. … Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
Dare to Dream by One Direction, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6422638.Niall_Horan
Variant: And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
Source: Mein Kampf
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“And so being young and dipped in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.”
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”
“Always remember. You will live. You will love. You will dance again.”
Source: True Love
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
Source: Heliogabalus
“In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
“She loves him more than he will ever know
He loves her more than he will ever show”
Swap Meet.
Song lyrics, Bleach (1989)
"Rock On Freddie" (1985).
“I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all”
Twitter response to anti-gay religious group Westboro Baptist Church picketing a One Direction concert (19 July 2013) https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/westboro-baptist-church-one-direction_n_3634663
Context: Despite the company outside, I believe in equal rights for everyone. I think God loves all. Thanks for coming to the show though.
“I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.”
“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
Variant: You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
“My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.”
Interview with Sir David Frost on the BBC, 1972.
Quote, Other
“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”
Variant: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Source: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
I am
Variant: Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
Source: I Am That
Context: "I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says "I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both."
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
Variant: I love you as one loves certain dark things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Source: 100 Love Sonnets
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
Source: Warsaw Ghetto Memoirs of Janusz Korczak
“One love, one heart,
Let's get together and feel alright.”
One Love (cowritten with Curtis Mayfield), from the album Exodus, originally recorded on The Wailing Wailers (1965)
Song lyrics
Source: Bob Marley - Legend
“What else is the help of medicine than love?”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
“Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg
Other
As quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_XX-XX-1985_-_Unknown.
“The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.”
"The Evolution of Chastity" (1934), as translated by René Hague in Toward the Future (1975)
Context: The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe. Beyond the vibrations with which we are familiar, the rainbow-like range of its colours is still in full growth. But, for all the fascination that the lower shades have for us, it is only towards the "ultra" that the creation of light advances. It is in these invisible and, we might almost say, immaterial zones that we can look for true initiation into unity. The depths we attribute to matter are no more than the reflection of the peaks of spirit.
"Idontwannabeyouanymore" · Official video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tn2S3kJlyU
Dont Smile At Me (2017)