Quotes For Him
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Fernando Pessoa photo

“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.

Voltaire photo

“Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body.”

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.
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)
Citas

Alexander the Great photo

“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.
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."
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?"
There are no more other worlds to conquer!
Variant attributed as his "last words" at a few sites on the internet, but in no published sources.
Disputed
Source: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_tranquillitate_animi*.html

Hans Urs Von Balthasar photo

“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)

Erica Jong photo

“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

Diana, Princess of Wales photo

“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)

Ferdinand Foch photo

“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

Katherine Mansfield photo

“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

Sophocles photo
David Lynch photo

“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.

Axel Munthe photo

“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]

Nagarjuna photo

“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)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry photo
John Keats photo
Prevale photo

“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

Sylvia Day photo
Victor Hugo photo

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“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.

Richard Matheson photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.”

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 photo

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

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

John Donne photo
Agatha Christie photo
E.E. Cummings photo

“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.

André Breton photo
Paul Tillich photo

“The first duty of love is to listen.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher
Maya Angelou photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Lauren Child photo
Thich Nhat Hanh photo
André Breton photo

“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

Bob Dylan photo

“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

William Congreve photo

“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”

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)

Nicholas Sparks photo
James Baldwin photo
Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“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

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

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

William Goldman photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Libba Bray photo

“I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Christopher Marlowe photo

“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

Jane Austen photo
F. Scott Fitzgerald photo

“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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning photo

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

Source: Selected Poems

Mitch Albom photo
Wayne W. Dyer photo
Anaïs Nin photo
Margaret Mitchell photo

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind

Michel De Montaigne photo

“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 photo

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

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

Cecelia Ahern photo
Tom Robbins photo
Nicholas Sparks photo

“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

Carl Sagan photo
Jane Austen photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“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.

Ingrid Bergman photo

“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

Anaïs Nin photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Paulo Coelho photo
Leo Buscaglia photo

“Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Speaking Of Love (1980)

Maya Angelou photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Chinmayananda Saraswati photo

“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

John Green photo

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep; Slowly, and then all at once.”

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)

Terence photo

“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)