Quotes - Del (j-ongup) (Manila, Philippines) Showing 1-30 of 91

#1

“I always knew I would fall in love with you," he said softly, "but you were never supposed to love me back.”
― Priscilla Glenn, Back to You

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#2

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

tags: inspirational, wonder

4743 likes

#3

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

3693 likes

#4

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Riding Shotgun

tags: love

2767 likes

#5

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

tags: grammar

1635 likes

#6

“Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: infatuation, love, passion

2092 likes

#7

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: romance, teen-suicide, tragedy

1404 likes

#8

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Give me a case to put my visage in:
A visor for a visor! what care I
What curious eye doth quote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.”
― William Shakespeare

tags: love

510 likes

#9

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

3439 likes

#10

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect

1531 likes

#11

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, fairytales, growing-up

18124 likes

#12

“I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Lola and the Boy Next Door

1796 likes

#13

“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

1304 likes

#14

“At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

tags: endurance, forbidden, love, separation

741 likes

#15

“As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

tags: bhie, forbidden, hurt, lochan, love, tabitha-suzuma

458 likes

#16

“And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.”
― Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden

135 likes

#17

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

tags: books, power

3336 likes

#18

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: language, new-year, voice, words

4188 likes

#19

“Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.”
― Kate Brian, Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

tags: boys

128 likes

#20

“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

1769 likes

#21