“That's not my love; that's just your life.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Isso não é o meu amor; é apenas a sua vida.
Quotes For Him page 2
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
L'amour est de toutes les passions la plus forte, parce qu'elle attaque à la fois la tête, le cœur et le corps. <br class="br"> Le Dernier Volume Des Œuvres De Voltaire: Contes - Comédie - Pensées - Poésies - Lettres http://books.google.com/books?id=ZDo6AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA192&dq=%22L%27amour+est+de+toutes+les+passions+la+plus+forte,+parce+qu%27elle+attaque+%C3%A0+la+fois+la+t%C3%AAte,+le+c%C5%93ur+et+le+corps.%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=BGt6VKiLDcK5OPXugcgH&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22L%27amour%20est%20de%20toutes%20les%20passions%20la%20plus%20forte%2C%20parce%20qu%27elle%20attaque%20%C3%A0%20la%20fois%20la%20t%C3%AAte%2C%20le%20c%C5%93ur%20et%20le%20corps.%22&f=false (1862) <br class="br">Citas
“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
Statement portrayed as a quotation in a 1927 Reader's Digest article, this probably derives from traditions about Alexander lamenting at his father Philip's victories that there would be no conquests left for him, or that after his conquests in Egypt and Asia there were no worlds left to conquer. <br class="br">Some of the oldest accounts of this, as quoted by John Calvin state that on "hearing that there were other worlds, wept that he had not yet conquered one." <br class="br">This may originate from Plutarch's essay On the Tranquility of Mind, part of the essays Moralia: Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?" <br class="br">There are no more other worlds to conquer! <br class="br">Variant attributed as his "last words" at a few sites on the internet, but in no published sources. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_tranquillitate_animi*.html
“The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.”
Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian
Love Alone Is Credible (1963)
“Because I loved myself, I was loved.”
Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.”
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–1997) First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
"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.”
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
As quoted in The 32d Infantry Division in World War II (1956) by Harold Whittle Blakeley, p. 3
“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
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
“I like the saying "The world is as you are."”
David Lynch book Catching the Big Fish
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.
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Axel Munthe (1857–1949) Swedish physician
Source: supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/axel-munthe/a-man-can-stand-a-lot-as-fqb50991/
“Love is wholeness, with no searching.”
Jakub Tencl (1978) Czech clinical hypnotherapist and writer
Source: The mystery of life : you are the light, and that's indestructible truth, Tencl, Jakub,, 9781512399882, [United Kingdom? https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914353319,, 914353319]
“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”
Nagarjuna (150–250) Indian philosopher
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.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Love has no age, no limit; and no death.”
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
Karl Menninger (1893–1990) American psychiatrist
“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) L'occasione della tua vita, sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
Source: Les Misérables
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.”
Rohinton Mistry book Family Matters
Source: Family Matters
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
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.
“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”
Théophile Gautier (1811–1872) French writer
“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Variant: These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
Source: Lady Midnight
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
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
“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Variant: Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer
Source: The Edge of Desire
“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Source: Mad Love
“With our love, we could save the world.”
George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles
“The first duty of love is to listen.”
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
Lauren Child (1965) author and illustrator especially known for Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean, and My Uncle is a Hunkle
“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Variant: All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Source: Mad Love
“The future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
Source: Bob Dylan - Love and Theft: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
“Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.”
Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses
Source: Half Broke Horses
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
William Congreve The Way of the World
Act II, scene i. Precedent for Alfred Tennyson's more famous: "'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
The Way of the World (1700)
“Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.”
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: God-Shaped Hole
“I love you. And I don't want to lose you.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince
Source: Clockwork Prince
“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States
“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher
Variant: Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Source: To Love and Be Loved
“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Beauty Queens
“Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator
Source: The Complete Plays and Poems
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
Morrie Schwartz (1916–1995) American sociologist
Source: Morrie: In His Own Words
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Source: Selected Poems
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
“loving people live in a loving world. hostile people live in a hostile world. same world.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving
Variant: Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love say: 'i need you because I love you.
Source: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 2
“If you love something, let it go. if it was meant to be, it will come back to you.”
Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.”
Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer
Source: Tiger Lily
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan book Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
Jane Austen book Love and Freindship
Source: Love and Friendship
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden
"Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994
“He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.”
Anaïs Nin book Delta of Venus
Source: Delta of Venus
“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Speaking Of Love (1980)
“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Heaven would never be heaven without you.”
Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come
Source: What Dreams May Come
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel Grace Lancaster, p. 125
Compare Ernest Hemingway, speaking about the process of going bankrupt: "'Gradually and then suddenly.'"
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love.”
Amantium irae amoris integratio est.
Act III, scene 3, line 23 (555).
Variant translation: Lovers’ rows make love whole again.
Andria (The Lady of Andros)