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“I have loved colours, and not flowers; Their motion, not the swallows wings; And wasted more than half my hours Without the comradeship of things.”
Arthur Symons (1865–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not be afraid, Leon, — I feel much better; but in case anything should happen to me I wanted to leave you something to remember me by. Perhaps I ought not to say it so soon after my husband's death; but as I might die, I wanted to tell you now that I loved you very, very much.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.”
Walter Murch (born 1943) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film, Michael Ondaatje, 2002, .
“That’s the saddest loss of all, to go on for a few weeks, a few days, a night, a minute, and think everything is still all right when the structure you’ve built your life on has crumbled. We should have been mourning you, but instead we made plans, went to work, dreamed, loved, not knowing you were already behind us.”
Paullina Simons (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always loved long journeys. The act of leaving accustomed surroundings is a release from real time, real life. You can place that familiar life on hold, freeze it, secure in the awareness that it will be there waiting for you when you come back. The journey itself becomes an opportunity to explore parallel lives, those other optional lives which have always been there.”
Witi Ihimaera (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...a little-known piece of C++ trivia you can use to impress your friends and loved ones.”
Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1995/6
“He fought her with full energy and intelligence, as she had wanted to be loved. (one: IN THE CORPORATE FORTRESS)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one before the twenty-first century had ever loved flowers and fruiting trees and little birds and the simple beauty of green leaves as did those who lived after the Famine, for whom they were precious and rare and always endangered. (four: THROUGH THE BURNING LABYRINTH)”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”
Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.”
Ryan Adams (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.”
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From his treatise "The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevik Battle Organisation", (1936)
“There's so much I would have loved to have seen. The positives? I've been lucky in that I've had such a good life. Simple as that. My first 30 years were pretty damn good and the last 30, since I got published, have been absolutely brilliant. I've so many good friends and been part of a wonderful extended family and I'll leave behind a substantial body of work.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/15/iain-banks-the-final-interview
“You speak of errors.. .Men who are so correct and flawless are mostly boring; small weaknesses can be loved.. .One chief characteristic of the etchings gives me much pleasure: because out of them streams forth a tremendous life.”
Emil Nolde (1867–1956) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in two letters, to , 23 October and 22 November, 1905; as quoted by Hans Fehr, in: 'Aus Leben und Werkstatt', 'Das Kunstblatt' no. 7 (1919), pp. 205-6; as quoted in 'The Revival of Printmaking in Germany', I. K. Rigby; …
“In truth, I sat down in 1992 to make a kids’ show that I would want to watch with my kids. That would work for me. That would have sincerity in it, but not too much. That would mix what I loved about Monty Python and David Letterman with what I hungered for from Thomas Aquinas and Mother Theresa.”
Phil Vischer (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.”
Billy Childish (born 1959) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tim Teeman, "The importance of being Childish", The Times, 2006-12-02
“This is a dark painting with a bit of violence because I was very affected by Diana's death. I cried all day because I liked her, warts and all. Most of all I liked the way that she wanted to be loved and didn't mind admitting it.”
Stella Vine (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Alleyen, "First blood to Saatchi as a star is born", The Daily Telegraph, (2004-02-24)
“I identify with people like Diana who just want to be loved by everybody. If somebody doesn’t like me I find that very upsetting.”
Stella Vine (born 1969) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catherine Deveney, "Stripped bare", The Scotsman, (2004-03-14)
“I hope that whoever stole it, stole it because they loved it, and not because of all the hype.”
Stella Vine (born 1969) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lomax, Cathy. Lost Kitten, Retrieved 29 January 2009.
“It was my sensual excessiveness that jarred him [ Jasper Johns.] He was always an intellectual. He read a lot, he wrote poetry – he would read Hart Crane's poems to me, which I loved but didn't have the patience to read myself – and he was often critical of things like my grammar. But you don't let a thing like that bother you if you have only two or three real friends.”
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar. Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway, far, Before you agonise them in farewell?”
Laurence Hope (1865–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Joy! Again, around—a pause, a sound—a song: a way a lone a last a loved a long. A cave, a grave, a day: arise, ascend. (Areion, Rharian; go free and graze. Amen.) A shore, a tide, unmoored—a sight, abroad: A dawn, unmarked, undone, undarked (a god). No time. No flock. No chime, no clock. No end. White star, white ship—Nightjar, transmit: transcend!”
Joanna Newsom (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”
Paul of Tarsus (5–66) said by 66 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class. It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for — or ignored.”
Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What Do You See, Madam? (1932)
“I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me. I don't apologize. I stand by it. If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?”
Stephen A. Smith (born 1967) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Richard Sandomir in "ESPN's New Master of the Offensive Foul", New York Times (July 31, 2005).
“He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.”
Megan Whalen Turner (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These nymphs I would perpetuate. So clear Their light carnation, that it floats in the air Heavy with tufted slumbers. Was it a dream I loved?”
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, lonely tomb in Moab's land, O, dark Bethpeor's hill, Speak to these curious hearts of ours, And teach them to be still! God hath His mysteries of grace — Ways that we cannot tell; He hides them deep, like the secret sleep, Of him He loved so well.”
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818–1895) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 280.
“Milly was a woman of rare stature and nobility who rejected all that was ugly and mean. She was like a mother to her younger friends and comrades; even in her later years she was always surrounded by young people, who loved and revered her. Wherever we lived our modest home was a gathering place for people of different races and nationalities and it was Milly to whom it owed its warmth and charm.”
Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Goodbye. You have gone to the place where we can never meet again I can't accept the coldness of an eternal parting I wish I could have heard you say That surely, you had loved me Only once, even if it were a lie”
Ayumi Hamasaki (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is most unconscionable is that there is not a shred of evidence to justify the certain loss of life. Do the generalized threats and half-truths of this administration give any one of us in Congress the confidence to tell a mother or father or family that the loss of their child or loved one was in the name of a just cause?”
Pete Stark (1931–2020) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, October 8, 2002, in opposition to the resolution authorizing military force against Iraq
“I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries ... For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.”
Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).
“Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.”
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal flip Through the depths of the Cambrian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, For I loved you even then.”
Langdon Smith (1858–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mindless we lived and mindless we loved And mindless at last we died; And deep in the rift of the Caradoc drift We slumbered side by side. The world turned on in the lathe of time, The hot lands heaved amain, Till we caught our breath from the womb of death And crept into light again.”
Langdon Smith (1858–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet happy we lived and happy we loved, And happy we died once more; Our forms were rolled in the clinging mold Of a Neocomian shore. The eons came and the eons fled And the sleep that wrapped us fast Was riven away in a newer day And the night of death was past.”
Langdon Smith (1858–1908) said by 1908 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jerry was willowy and worried. He had one good trick. Now and then, someone with a lot of privileges was allowed to leave the hospital in a taxi. That person would say, “Jerry, call me a cab.” Jerry would say, “You’re a cab.” We loved this.”
Susanna Kaysen (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once, after we had recalled to each other an enchanted summer evening, I said, "We loved each other," and she answered, "I remember.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hear no more sounds. Marie has finished. She comes up beside me. We have sought each other and come together as often as possible since the day when we saw so clearly that we no longer loved each other!”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
Nicole Krauss (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry this time my people were led by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. Germany, good luck.”
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words, 10/16/46. Quoted in "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II" - Page 564 - by Jon E. Lewis - History - 2002
“I've lived through 17 stays in penal institutions. Incarceration in a penitentiary. Five marriages, a bankruptcy, a broken back, brawls, shooting incidents, swindlings, sickness, the death of loved ones and more. I've heard tens of thousands chant my name when I couldn't hear the voice of my own soul. I wondered if God was listening and I was sure no one else was.”
Merle Haggard (1937–2016) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sing Me Back Home (1981), co-written with Peggy Russell; also quoted in "Country Legend Merle Haggard Dies At 79" at NPR (6 April 2016)
“Umpire Billy Bowden is decked by a Jones sweep! How marvellous...I mean what a choker...A sweetly-timed shot by the England batsman, which strikes Bowden on the hip, sending sunnies and walkie-talkie flying. Shame for Jones, that was going for four. Bowden will have secretly loved that, the old drama tart.”
“They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am deeply saddened and shocked by the sudden demise of Ambassador Roy Seneres. He is a big loss to the OFWs and their families, whose causes and concerns he had fought for. Our deepest condolences to his family. I appeal to our people to pray for the eternal repose of Ambassador Seneres, as well as for strength for his loved ones during this difficult time.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2016, February 8). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero
“Tatay has always been the center of our family. He was a father first and foremost and a man who deeply loved his country and his people second. He devoted his entire life to public service.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.”
Mark David Chapman (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Past sins, if you repent of them, whiten you. They made a great psalmist out of David, a faithful believer out of the prostitute Rahab, a zealous apostle out of the persecutor Saul. I have been a loved preacher and writer with a particular vocation. My sermons and books would not have had the same quality without my past of anarchy, vice, and violent atheism.”
Richard Wurmbrand (1909–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, she loved him very much. Yes, he was born that way. Yes, she was standing by the prison wall that morning. Yes, she heard the shots. You may regret not having brought a camera, a tape recorder. Yes, she has seen such things.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always loved the original Oliver! film, especially the songs, so to be playing the role alongside Ron Moody, who played Fagin in the original version, feels like a dream. But every day of the past year has felt so fantastic, so brilliant, it seems unreal.”
Joseph McManners (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source