Quotes tagged ‘Love’

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“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”

“Find someone. Fall in love, Give your soul. Lose your soul, Lose that love. Find someone else.”

— Allen Epley, thelifeandtimes.bandcamp.com

“He looked at her thoughtfully, gently bit the tip of her nose. He had loved her with all his might these two weeks and, in so loving, had considered her transparent, a plate of glass. He could see through to the goodness at her quick. But glass is fragile, he would have to be careful.”

— Lauren Groff, amazon.com

“I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love…”

— Donald Barthelme, amazon.com

“I am furious with you, but I love you very dearly.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.To think only the b…”

— Christian D. Larson, amazon.com

“I saw faces all given to love, adorned by the Light of Another, and by their own smile.”

— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com

“She was a clinging little soul, docile and gentle. Her love was of the lily variety; but now and then it burst into flame and at such times Albinus was deluded into thinking that he had no need of any other love-mate.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com

“He didn't notice a single face as he took a seat. He saw neither teacher nor students, and was aware only of the heavenly light in the room, an orange glow from the autumnal foliage outside. The room seemed full of a sweet viscous liquid, a honey nearly light as air, which he breathed in. Time slowe…”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

— Carl Jung, amazon.com

“Her face was like a child's, not yet touched by the shadow of family deaths. Behind her there was a white, Spanish-looking building, large, spear-shaped fronds, and a wide, bright expanse of water. Sunlight fell everywhere, not least (one felt) in the young woman's heart. He had never seen anyone mo…”

— John Gardner, amazon.com

“There is a psychoanalytic myth called the lamella. This is a word used in biology, botany, and anatomy to refer to a thin membrane or casing. Lacan used it to metaphorize the idea of a narcissitic shell, a myth employed to illustrate the stakes of love in the games of erotic passion and commitment.…”

— Simon Critchley, amazon.com

“The only proof of love may be the ease with which it can be betrayed.”

— Simon Critchley, amazon.com

“You're everything that I want and ask for, you're all that I'd dreamed.”

— Billy Corgan, amazon.com

“You poor baby! And yet—you selfish little bastard! As I try to find the agent behind the act, the motivating force at the bottom of the whole thing, I seem to see only an endless ambivalence. Behind the mask of love I find my innate selfishness. What a predicament I am in if someone asks, 'Do you re…”

— Alan Watts, amazon.com

“Everyone typically thinks that when you're intimately close to someone, like your husband or your wife or your mom or your dad, that it opens you up so much to all these powerful feelings of connectedness and enables you to understand the other person with such incredible empathy. But I really think…”

— Mark Leyner, REAL HUSBAND, amazon.com

“I would have scratched until I'd stripped away all of her skin, peeled off layers of dermis and epidermis and sebaceous glands, picked away at the backbone and spine, I would have played around with the vertebrae had not Nina said, 'Softer, you're hurting me.'”

— David Shields, Walter Jaffe, amazon.com

“We are all so afraid. We are all so alone. We all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”

— David Shields, amazon.com

“Her words were ended. But Aeneas, warned by Jove, held still his eyes; he struggled, pressed care back within his breast. With halting words he answers her at last: “I never shall deny what you deserve, the kindnesses that you could tell; I never shall regret remembering Elissa for as long as I reme…”

— Virgil