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“I found California to be a safe place for me, and it just felt right. I loved everything about it. Even the little things, like not knowing where we would sleep at night, didn't bother me because I was happy. I loved it and I've never left California.”
Desreta Jackson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, how I loved them; I know full well I loved them! I led them all to death.”
Nicolas Oudinot (attributed) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reminiscence in later life, reported in R. P. Dunn-Pattison, Napoleon's Marshals, 2nd ed. (London: Methuen & Co., 1909), p. 335
“He delighted in the role of a hero, he loved Sarajevo and he loved money.”
Jusuf Prazina (1963–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted!”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) said by 1796 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“'T is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
Alfred Tennyson (active around 1809) bartlett, Public domain source
“Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money.”
Russell Conwell (1843–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger. And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool. So you go running off in search of a perfect stranger, While the loneliness seems to spring from your life Like a fountain from a pool.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you depend on the widespread lover's delusion, 'With my love he or she will change,' you have little chance to help yourself. This delusion is external control to the maximum. If things are not good from the beginning, they are very likely to change, but not for the better.”
William Glasser (1925–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die?”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.”
William Blake (1757–1827) said by 1827 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A soft and blue Italian sky, — the blue That painters and that poets love, — the blue The lover worships in the maiden's eyes, Whose beauty is their power and spell.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would resign the words of praise which now Make my cheek crimson and my pulses beat. Could I but deem that when my heart is cold And my lip passionless, my songs would be Numbered 'mid the young minstrels' first delights, And murmured by the lover where his suit Calls upon poetry to breathe of love.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A woman whose lover resigns her, and as if for her own sake, though without consulting her, is placed in a most awkward situation. What can she do ? Take him at his word ? That is easy to say, but hard to do, when all the hopes and affections are garnered in his love.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is God's will that I see myself as much bound to Him in love as if He had done for me all that He hath done; and thus should every soul think inwardly of its Lover. That is to say, the Charity of God maketh in us such a unity that, when it is truly seen, no man can part himself from other.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1500) said by 1500 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It naturally follows that the creature you love next best is the person — the God-lover or God-hater (almost never, apparently, anything in between), the saint or profligate, moralist or complete immoralist — who can write a poem that is a poem.”
J. D. Salinger (1919–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that’s the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it’s life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perfect love is rare indeed — for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm a dog lover. Actually, I love my dog, I don't give a shit about your dog. I don't know your dog. Your dog could be an asshole, I don't know.”
“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Time magazine (26 June 1950)
“The poet walked alone in a cold late rain, And thought his grief was like the crying of sea-birds; For his lover was dead, he never would love again.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tonight the lilacs magnify The easy passion, the ever-ready love Of the lover that lies within us and we breatheAn odor evoking nothing, absolute. We encounter in the dead middle of the night The purple odor, the abundant bloom.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your eyes, that looked on glory, could discover The angry scar to which the world was blind: And it was grief that made Mankind your lover, And it was grief that made you love Mankind.”
Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, we all fall in love But we disregard the danger Though we share so many secrets There are some we never tell. Why were you so surprised That you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see The stranger in yourself?”
Billy Joel (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure to be experienced by the sensitive lover.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My passion for her, even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.”
Jeanette Winterson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think the essence of romantic love for women is being the special one, and that's an absolutely terrible trap. If the lover treats certain other people badly, you will be treated that badly, too.”
Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Norah Vincent, Sex, Love and Politics: Andrea Dworkin, in New York Press, vol. 11, no. 5, Feb. 4–10, 1998, p. 40, col. 4 (main title and subtitle may have been in either order, per id., p. [1])
“I was a troubled teen Who put an advert in a magazine To the annoyance of my imaginary lover She doubted my integrity And this is what she said to me: She said, "Oh, you, you're green You don't know what love means Well, let me tell you”
Pete Doherty (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't be a lover if you want to keep on using What are you using that's stronger than the love Sometimes I'm knocked out by the damage that you're doing Knocked out, locked out, push comes to shove Listen to the wind tearing at the windows Watching how the white moon melts into the cloud Important little tyrants, impotent little pharaohs Men/man of sorrows lost into the crowd ~ Richochet”
Steve Kilbey (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”
Yann Martel (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love plays its lute behind the screen — where is a lover to listen to its tune?”
Fakhruddin 'Iraqi (1213–1289) said by 1289 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Give me a kiss, dearest lover. I'm certain that you still love me, and I fear you always, like some tyrant over me. I don't know why, but I fear you. Upon my word, only you have power over me, you and... no one else.”
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chopin to Tytus Woyciechowski, 5 October 1830
“And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end: I cannot, having been your lover, Stoop to become your friend!”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: After Love, st. 3 (1892).
“The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other’s bed, where the rival perfects the lover’s imperfections.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? ... Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move: This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her!”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Out upon it! I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.Time shall moult away his wings, Ere he shall discover In the whole wide world again Such a constant lover.”
John Suckling (1609–1642) said by 1642 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Send my love to your new lover, Treat her better. We've gotta let go of all of our ghosts. We both know we ain't kids no more.”
Adele (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) said by 1366 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness (1912), p. 152
“Even in the healthiest of relationships, a spouse’s or lover’s happiness isn’t necessarily our own. It’s rarely the case, for example, that upon hearing about a partner’s infidelity, people say “Oh, that’s nice! I love my partner, and I’m sure they had fun – so this is great news!”
Steve Stewart-Williams (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How do I love thee? Let me count the days. If there are 50 ways to leave your lover then there are 50 ways to be left.”
Sheri-D Wilson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heart is not free from love pain Painless body is only soil and water Everybody vecomes lover O, there is no leveless heart in the worls.”
Jami (1414–1492) said by 1492 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So I, I turn the radio on, I turn the radio up And this woman was singin' my song Lovers in love and the others run away Lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay”
“Love is the effacement of the lover's attributes and the establishments of the Beloved's Essence.”
Al-Qushayri (986–1072) said by 1072 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pure love of God illuminates the soul of the lover and the mysteries of His divinity are revealed by God when the vision of the Beloved is contemplated.”
Abu Talib al-Makki (died 996) said by 996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I am a lover boy. I love hard”