371 quotes found
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”
“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”
“One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.”
“It's your heart. No one else gets a say in that.”
“This is the terrible thing girls like us have in common" she explained. "Parents, upbringings,lifestyles, that are painfully normal. Middle class."It was almost amoral, being raised this way, she t...”
“So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men”
“His walk and stare. Was as poisonous as the air after a nuclear bomb.”
“I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside.”
“Everything that is,casts a shadow”
“Hands. Cheeks. Eyes. Lips.Neck. Ears.Thighs.Heart. Soul.Ahh!the things I get tosavor you with.”
“It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.”
“A strong woman will automatically stoptrying if she feels unwanted. She won't fix it or beg, she'll just walk away.”
“Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.”
“I flew into sky, yet I could not leave home. I wanted to stay while I wanted to go.”
“love wounds me with soft pillows with tender lips and fingers”
“Everything is nothing.”
“Neither pathway is correct.”
“Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.”
“Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the ...”