Famous Quotes

"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them."

"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time."

"Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames."

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue."

"Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."

"How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh"

"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

"You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange."

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused."

"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."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

"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"

"You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs."

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."