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“As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.”
John Barlas (1860–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars? Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city. A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain.”
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Desolate City, from Collected Poems (1914)
“’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour! My fondest hopes would not decay: I never loved a tree or flower Which was the first to fade away.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
“Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do. (2001)”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Superstition saw Something it had never seen before: Brown eyes that loved without a trace of fear, Beauty so sudden for that time of year.”
Jean Toomer (1894–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalk The first song of his happiness, and the song woke His heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.”
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Song (1983).
“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved life too much to lust for life.”
Antoni Lange (1862–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had given up [around 1950] any ambition of making a career as an artist.. .I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.”
Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would do the track and put guide vocals on it and Eddie really loved the version and said he wanted to keep my backing vocals in so my girlie harmonies are in the background. My 14-year-old self would have fucking died knowing that.”
Daniel Johns (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My neighbour doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.”
Irving Layton (1912–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mystery: Time and Tide shall pass, I am the Wisdom Looking-Glass.This is the Ruby none can touch: Many have loved it overmuch; Its fathomless fires flutter and sigh, Being as images of the flame That shall make earth and heaven the same When the fire of the end reddens the sky, And the world consumes like a burning pall, Till where there is nothing, there is all.”
Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A distant destination austerely reached rarely compensates for a loved starting-point forever lost.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) first seen 1860 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Daniel Ullmann (1 February 1861); quoted in "Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig" by Daniel Walker Howe, The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, Volume 16, Issue 1 (Winter 1995); also in We Have the War Upo…
“Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! For me her constant flame appears; The garland she hath culled, I wear On brows bald since my thirty years. Ye veils that deck my loved one rare, Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh. Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair! And I, so plain a man am I!”
Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) said by 1857 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Qu'elle est jolie, translated by C. L. Betts; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 57.
“They Holla Young Gunz and Young Bloodz, but Boosie he bust gunz and spit it to his loved ones.”
Lil Boosie (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The problem was, I enjoyed Question Period too much and loved the challenge it provided. Far from being a dreaded burden, it had become an exciting part of my life; opposition members attacked me, I fought back, I won or lost or held them to draw, and the next day we did it all over again.”
Jean Chrétien (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'He didn't want to come, Dweller. He didn't want to get involved. It should have been me who died.' 'Of course he wanted to come. Why else was he here? You didn't force him, Draig. He came because you were his brother and he loved you. He could have left at any time once the pursuit began. He made his own choices. Just as you did. Just as I knew you would.'”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.”
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.”
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.”
Demi Lovato (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Roger:I don't think its odd. I think these days, with the internet and DVDs with every CD, fans want more content, so you give it to them! I always loved watching the making of videos of bands that i like , so we thought that our fans wanna know some of our behind the scene stuff.”
Roger Manganelli (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do exactly what you would do if you felt most loved and cherished.”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if we were offered everything that exists, it is nothing compared to the freedom and power of being loved”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How Henry would have loved it.”
Ellen Terry (1847–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, John Michael Cohen, M. J. Cohen (1971)
“All that I had loved during my life rose up like a graveyard of white tombs, in a lunar, spectral light. Fundamentally, this graveyard was a brothel. The funereal marble was alive. In some places it had hair on it.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Books serve us simply by opening a window on all we wanted to say and feel and think about. We may not even notice that they have not said it themselves till we go back to them years later and do not find what we loved in them. You cannot keep the view by taking the window with you.”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now you're my whole life; Now you're my whole world. I just can't believe The way I feel about you girl. Like a river meets the sea, Stronger than it's ever been. We've come so far since that day, And I thought I loved you then.”
Brad Paisley (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My father loved us so much, but he's the kind of person that chokes you. He doesn't leave you your own pleasures. If you think or feel one way and he feels the other way, he won't accept it. My mother wanted to work. People wanted her to do movies, but he just wanted her to be at home, be a mother, be a wife, be this Venus, this planet he could land on anytime.”
Nastassja Kinski (born 1961) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
Shel Silverstein (1930–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Nigel Farage] offers nothing for a healthy Conservative future. His saloon bar bluster, if translated into policy, would give us Liz Truss economics, Jeremy Corbyn foreign policy (which would be much loved by Putin) and an approach to our nation's identity akin to that of Tommy Robinson (albeit Tommy Robinson with a cravat).”
Chris Patten (born 1944) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My six-point plan to drag the Tories back from the abyss", The Independent (15 July 2024)
“Before his illness, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin loved being photographed with pygmies.”
Dmitry Rogozin (born 1963) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Twitter, comparing the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to a photo of a dead gorilla. {February 25th, 2024}
“Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being.”
Robert Greene (American author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Earth was their mother, but her land and water could never be desecrated; blasted open and polluted by man, but never desecrated. Man only desecrated himself in such acts; puny humans could not affect the integrity of Earth. Earth always was and would ever be sacred. Mother Earth might be ravaged by the Destroyers, but she still loved the people. (Part Five, Book One: The Foes)”
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yeah, the physical stuff is always fun. I'm a physical and active person, so I would have loved to have done more of this, but my character does a lot more in the other films.”
Liam Hemsworth (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enemies are hostile, out to stop you, to eliminate you and your ideas; they are also to be loved, even as yourself.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.”
Ronnie Radke (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.”
David Cronenberg (born 1943) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/CBC Radio program Q," (7 June 2012)
“Women are meant to be loved and not understood.”
Mumtaz (actress) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November 1970 (quoted in Filmfare, 7 December 2011)
“In the year 2000, when he said one farm, one farmer, he was vilified. For 20 years they loved Mugabe because they didn’t take the land from the whites.”
Charles Barron (born 1950) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commenting on Robert Mugabe, 6 June, 2008.
“I had almost no education. I hardly went to school. I’d be away for weeks doing films, then I’d come back and have no idea what they were talking about. Of course the other kids loved it: ‘You may be a well-known star but you don’t know how to do algebra.’ It was a nightmare.”
Petula Clark (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was very lucky in my career and I loved it. But I don’t think I was accomplished enough as an actor to be remembered particularly. No, I’d like to be remembered as a decent human being, and a caring one.”
Grace Kelly (1929–1982) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with , June 22, 1982
“This is my child . I planted it . I saw it grow . I loved it . Don't cut it down .”
R. K. Narayan (1906–2001) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Malgudi Days(1943)
“The heavenly Bridegroom allows small failings and common weaknesses in order to deliver his loved ones from pride.”
John of St. Samson (1572–1636) said by 1636 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.”
Kevin Barry (1902–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humans, I have loved you all. Be vigilant!”
Julius Fučík (journalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source