Source: Message in a Bottle
Romantic quotes
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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
Stanza 2
Poems (1820), Ode on a Grecian Urn
Variant: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems
Context: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
Context: Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d,
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone.
Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave
Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare;
Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss,
Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve;
She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,
For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
Robert Frost
(1874–1963) American poet
As quoted in a review of A Swinger of Birches (1957) by Sydney Cox in Vermont History, Vol. 25 (1957), p. 355
1950s
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
Hunter S. Thompson
(1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
“Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
Maya Angelou
(1928–2014) American author and poet
Variant: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”
Edward Thomas
(1878–1917) Poet and journalist
Source: "The Unknown", line 16, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 116.
“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
George Jean Nathan
(1882–1958) American drama critic and magazine editor
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
"Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy", Joseph P. Lash (1980) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/04/21/together/
“You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.”
Variant: You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
“I have decided to stick to love… Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“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”
Common (rapper)
(1972) American rapper, actor and author from Illinois
"The Light" (Track 7)
Albums, Like Water for Chocolate (2000)
“The important thing is to be nothing.”
Bram van Velde
(1895–1981) Dutch painter
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.”
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)
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
Source: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18
“To live is to not know that one is living”
Florbela Espanca
(1894–1930) Portuguese poet
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?
“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 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
“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
Variant: If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Source: The Longest Ride
“Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.”
Drew Barrymore
(1975) American actress, director and producer
“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.”
Paul McCartney
(1942) English singer-songwriter and composer
"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
“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”
George Gordon Byron
(1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
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
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
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
Dylan Thomas
(1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
Variant: Though lovers be lost love shall not.
“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.
“We must be our own before we can be another's.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“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
“A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.”
Charlie Chaplin
(1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
“It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.”
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“You can be right or you can be happy.”
Gerald G. Jampolsky
(1925) American writer and psychiatrist
Source: Love Is Letting Go of Fear
“I am what I am Are you what you are or What?”
Alanis Morissette
(1974) Canadian-American singer-songwriter
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“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
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
(1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“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.”
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)
Lisa Kleypas
(1964) American writer
Source: Again the Magic
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
Gwendolen, Act III
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
Maya Angelou
(1928–2014) American author and poet
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston
(1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story 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.”
Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
Nicholas Sparks
(1965) American writer and novelist
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Baz Luhrmann
(1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
Carl Sagan
book
Contact
Source: Contact (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 430)
“Familiar acts are beautiful through love.”
The Earth, Act IV, l. 403
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
Source: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Context: People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master…
