Every word you say I think I should write down; don't want to forget come daylight.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear:
the strength so strong mere force is
feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last
than star
[being to timelessness as it's to time, e e cummings]
Even beneath all your masks, I think I always knew you for exactly what you are.
Yes. Yes, you did.
[there is another sky, terrayn]
I learned more about you from the one time you didn't know I was looking than in six years of sharing the same spaces and hot meals.
And hexes. Don't forget hexes.
[there is another sky, terrayn]
This is my theory: We've got to meet the wrong people so we'll know when we meet the right one.
That is the worst excuse I've ever heard for the number of notches on your belt.
[there is another sky, terrayn]
The truth is: love fades. That's why you can't let it die. If they are worth it, you'll need to find a way to make them fall in love with you again and again, day after day.
[love fades, whatmarielsaid]
Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life … you give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like "maybe we should be just friends" or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.
[Rose Walker, The Kindly Ones]
He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold on to him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
[Bob Marley]
The couple that fights the most is the one most in love. It shows they care enough to notice the other one screwed up and care enough to mention it to the person so they can fix it. When you stop fighting it means you stopped caring.
[Unknown]
There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.
[Unknown]
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
[Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières]
You are the hopeful in my hopeless heart.
[Unknown]
I'm too proud to be vulnerable enough to want you as much as I do.
[Love, No One]
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free till they find someone just as wild to run with them.
[Sex And The City]
Forgiveness is something given by someone who sees all of you, every light and dark corner, who knows where you've been, where you'll walk, where you'll misstep again, sees it against what everyone else is or has done, and knows it's going to be okay. That things are the way they were meant to be, that everything has a reason, even those that can't be explained. That it's okay just to be, to take that precious moment of stillness and hold onto it, use it to give you strength to fuel everything else.
[A Witch's Beauty, Joey W. Hill]
And this time, it’ll be different, because now, alongside your own voice, there will be hers, proclaiming her own opinions, her own observations - and it’s startling how much of it you begin to agree with, and how much the world still disgusts you… though now for entirely different reasons.
And that’s the point when you will begin to realize how much she has influenced you; and you wonder, if you have even begun to corrupt her in the same way she has done to you.
A trade of souls, I suppose you can call it. Pouring a bit of your soul into the other.
[ White]
'Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,' Holly advised him. 'That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.'
[Breakfast At Tiffany's, Truman Capote]
The same thing happened over and over:
I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn't do at all.
[The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath]
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
[Erica Jong]
The course of true love never did run smooth.
[William Shakespeare]
If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with.
[Unknown]
Some people do not have to search. They find their niche early in life and rest there seemingly contented and resigned. They do not seem to take it seriously. At times I envy them, but usually I do not understand them.
I am one of the searchers; there are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beaches, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty.
We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers and lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our life as our laughter. To share our sadness with ones we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it is to share laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything it can provide.
Most of all we want to love and be loved, we want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wanderings, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls, that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or to compete for love.
This passage is for wanderers, dreamers and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.
[James Kavanaugh]
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with 4 arms, 4 legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.
[Unknown]
Dear Claire, What and If are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: What if? What if? What if? I don't know how your story ended, but if what you felt then was true love, then it's never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don't know what a love like Juliet's feels like - love to leave loved ones for, love to cross oceans for - but I'd like to believe if I ever were to feel it, I will have the courage to seize it. And, Claire, if you didn't, I hope one day that you will. All my love, Juliet
[Letters To Juliet]
Finally, and always, there is love. By this, I don't mean that economic bargain that often passes for love these days. I don't mean that I will love you if you get good grades, or that I will love you if you'll sleep with me, or that I will love you if anything. I mean what I mean when I say, "I love you." Period. Without expectation, condition, term limit, or obligation. To say that - and to mean it in that way - makes me happy. What makes me happiest of all is when someone says "I love you" to me - meaning it as unconditionally as I intend it to mean it - and I simply accept it. When I love without goal and accept love without doubt, I am happy. In this, I am not pursuing happiness. I am becoming it.
[The Pursuit of Happiness, John Perry Barlow]
When you love someone, you open yourself up to suffering. That's the sad truth. Maybe they'll break your heart, maybe you'll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That's the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens which allow us to fly.
[S4E26, Bones]
Destiny can't be changed, Dean, all roads lead to the same destination.
[S4E03, Supernatural]
What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.
[Jeanette Winterson]
Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.
[The Passion, Jeanette Winterson]
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
[Jeanette Winterson]
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
[Jeanette Winterson]
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.
[Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson]
There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.
[Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson]
I couldn't convince you that the blue you see is the same blue that I see. But maybe that's how lovers know they're meant to love; they see the same blue. And they both know it.
[The Blue Lines]
My heart lies vulnerable outside my chest.
[Unknown]
You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.
[Crush, Richard Siken]
The problem with playing little games like “don’t call him, let him call you,” is that while they may attract the type of guy who loves the chase - don’t you have to spend your life running away? What is wrong with going with your gut and acting on instinct? Sometimes you’ll fuck up, but you’ll learn a lesson, and you won’t have a random best-seller to blame or thank - you’ll learn to rely on yourself.
[Unknown]
Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There's the little empty pain of leaving something behind-graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There's the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There's the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn't give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There's the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
And if you're very, very lucky, there are a very few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last-and yet will remain with you for life.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it's a big part, and sometimes it isn't, but either way, it's part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.
[Dresden Files, Jim Butcher]
I'd rather have bad times with you than good times with someone else. I'd rather be beside you in a storm than safe and warm by myself. I'd rather have hard times together than to have it easy apart. Remember, I'd always love you, for you are the one who holds my heart.
[I'd Rather, Luther Vandross]
When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.
[Lisa Unger]
Fall down seven times stand up eight.
[Japanese Proverbs]
I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.
[Sylvia Plath]
Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would like better than to hold on to him forever. But I know it's not for the best. So no matter how much my heart is going to break, I've got to let him go so he can know just how much I love him. Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll come back, but if not, I can make it through this.
[Unknown]
It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love is eternal. If you think that you were once in love, but fell out of it, then it wasn't love you were in. There are no 'exit' signs in love, there is only an 'on' ramp.
[Unknown]
As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
[Pablo Neruda]
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
[Pablo Neruda]
To love an other person is to see the face of God.
[Les Miserables]
Love's involved with spending time together, but spending time apart, can lead to loving even more.
[Remember Me]
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
[Franz Kafka]
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
[Charles Bukowski]
Someone once told me, “You can do better. You deserve much more.” And truth be told, the person is right. But usually when we love, we love someone for who they are despite what they have done. It’s not so much about who we deserve, but who we want, who we need and who we love. That’s how love is.
[runawaytrains]
‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are and that I do not expect perfection from you. It means that I will stand by you and be there for you even through the worst of times. It means loving you when you’re unhappy or cranky, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough to not let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping that you feel the same way for me.
[runawaytrains]
This is either goodbye or hello again.
[ glassyskies]
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
[Dear John, Nicholas Sparks]
there is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. let me hold your hand my dear, at least until the smoke hath cleared.
[medisins]
Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.
[Louise Erdrich]
Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life.
[Bob Marley]
Keep your head up; you’re so much better than you believe. I promise.
[Unknown]
Car, vois-tu, chaque jour je t’aime davantage,
Aujourd’hui plus qu’hier et bien moins que demain.
[L'éternelle chanson, Rosemonde Gérard]
The thing about love, that Castiel has come to understand, is that is meaningless if not absolute. It is meaningless if not unconditional.
[Reaching as I Fall]
He recognizes this as friendship, but also something more - there’s an intensity in the way Dean looks at him, a strange edge to how he interacts with Castiel. The edge is like a flicker of something with more depth, something almost infinitely vast hiding behind it.
[Reaching as I Fall]
I want you. So be brave and want me back.
[Skins]
Et cetera, ad infinitum, seculo seculorum.
[ ohnuit]
There are some things that you initially can't see, but only become visible when you have faith.
[Unknown]
‘Am I in love? -Yes, since I’m waiting.’ The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.
[Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments]
Distance: diminishes small loves and increases great ones.
[Unknown]
You know, sometimes love needs to face obstacles to become stronger. People need to be tore apart from each other and say goodbye. The only thing to do then, is move on, and start over. If that love was really meant to be, it would come back, stronger than before. True love always wins against the things that want it's death.
[Unknown]
For you, a thousand times over.
[The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini]
I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
[Jonathan Safran Foer]
Making Love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The thirstier I become,
Until nothing can slake my thirst
But to drink the entire sea.
[Kenneth Rexroth, The Love Poems of Marchiko]
A Chinese proverb says an invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite the time, the place, despite the circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangled, but never be broken.
[Unknown]
There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
[John Green, An Abundance of Katherines]
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
[Sylvia Plath]
My greatest act of revolt against this meaningless world is the happiness I feel because of you.
[Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus]
Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.
[James Frey, A Million Little Pieces]
Forever is composed of nows.
[Emily Dickinson]
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
[Jim Morrison]
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart... Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
[Steve Jobs]
If there is ever a tomorrow when we are not together there is something you must always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think, but most important of all, even if we are apart, I’ll always be with you.
[Christopher Robin]
... feelings - love, for example - do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don't know, but it's a world where there's no time, no space, no frontiers.
[Paulo Coelho, Brida]
Too much love will kill you in the end.
[ God Of Loneliness]
Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,
Worlds.
[Izumi Shikibu, c.974]
You know what he said? He said that being away from me is less like being away from a person than being away from other people is. I don't know anyone else who would say something like that. And he was right. When we were apart, I missed him all the time, but he didn't feel faraway. He felt closer than the kids at school. ...Certain people are like that, I guess. They're together no matter where they are. They just belong to each other.
[Maria de los Santos, Belong to Me]
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
[Stanley Kubrick]
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
[Ernest Hemingway]
If it's true love then try, try again
Would you really expect for us to win right away?
[Catarina, Joe Purdy]
You cause in me an impossible craving
That cannot be denied
If I decided to make you my religion
I think God would be kind
[Could've Gone Mad, Poe]
Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sell all their possessions and move to Alaska to live with the grizzly bears, and then they get eaten and nobody hears them when they scream for help. That's right. Falling in love is pretty much the same thing as being eaten alive by a grizzly bear.
[The Catastrophic History of You And Me, Jess Rothenberg]
cling, v.: If you sense me holding back, it’s often because I fear my own neediness, and don’t want you to fear my neediness as well.
[David Levithan]
Sweetheart, put down your flamethrower.
You know I always loved you.
[Attack Of The Crab Monsters, Lawrence Raab]
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
[Th Wizard Of Oz]
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
[Lawrence M. Krauss]
Just because we do not talk does not mean I do not think about you. I am just trying to distance myself because I know I cannot have you.
[Wiz Khalifa]