Quotes of: Romantic-love Keyword

It was one of those moments in which I become very uncomfortable. One of those times when nothing you say can be right, and almost anything you do say is wrong. I could see no answer but the classic Croaker approach. I began to back away. That is how...

Shadow Games

In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship—he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has si...

Life, the Universe and Everything

It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, not infrequently, his own; feeling that, since Odette had had every facility for seeing him, she seemed no longer to have very much to say to him when...

Swann's Way

Recall what used to be the theme of poetry in the romantic era. In neat verses the poet lets us share his private, bourgeois emotions: his sufferings great and small, his nostalgias, his religious or political pre-occupations, and, if he were English...

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a referen...

Flashman

Poverty is a great educator. Having no boundaries and refusing to be ignored, it mostly teaches hopelessness. But not always. Politics is also a great educator. Mostly it teaches, I am afraid, cynicism. But not always. Television is a great educator ...

Neil Postman

I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that’s no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by ...

Paul Murray

She was resilient A brave soldier when life tested her It didn't matter that she did strange things like stand tall under the rain letting the drops kiss her skin thinking the storm was romantic It was hard to quiet her not that you would want to whe...

M.J. Abraham

Hazel Grace Lancaster: Is this where you bring all your romantic conquests? Augustus Waters: Yeah, every last one of them. Which is probably why I'm still a virgin. Augustus Waters: You are not still a virgin! Are you really? Augustus Waters: Let me ...

The Fault in Our Stars

Jackson Bentley: [on his interest in Lawrence and the Arab Revolt] I'm looking for a hero. Prince Feisal: Indeed, you do not seem a romantic man. Jackson Bentley: Oh, no! But certain influential men back home believe the time has come for America to ...

Lawrence of Arabia

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Clockwork Princess

If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.

Crush

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Emily of New Moon

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

A Familiar Rain

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Faith Within Reason

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

The Brothers Karamazov

I love Jill Scott! I love everything she puts on, how she does her hair; everything about Jill Scott is amazing!

Yvette Nicole Brown

We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

Afterlife

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

Amulet

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

Among Others

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.

Jesus-Shock