Leslie > Leslie's Quotes

“If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,
as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,
it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,
and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.”
― Michelangelo

“Love is eternal while it lasts.”
― Vinicius de Moraes

“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”
― Emily Giffin, Baby Proof

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
― Murakami, Haruki

“Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.”
― Alexander Herzen

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”
― Nietzsche, Friedrich

“Love is like quicksand; once you're in it's difficult to get out.”
― CB Smith

“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness

“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch

“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you. ”
― Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl

“Falling in love is painful on the knees.”
― Bon Jovi

“I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“There will never be no love at all.”
― Bob Marley

“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”
― John Milton, The Complete Poetry

“I couldn't help but wonder if that was what love was -- believing that someone was going to come through, in the end, and that it would still count”
― Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America

“One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.”
― Julian Barnes

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Have you ever loved someone so much that when you drew a breath you knew it was his?”
― Barbara Boyer, Courage of Fear

“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“What happens in the heart, simply happens”
― Ted Hughes

“Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“some people fall in love over and over again while some people can only do it once.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower

“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence