"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

Halas, George | Regret | 1 bookmarks

"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. | Love | 13 bookmarks

"Real love stories never have endings."

Bach, Richard | Love | 20 bookmarks

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person."

Anderson, Margaret | Love | 28 bookmarks

"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic | Love | 14 bookmarks

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy | Love | 11 bookmarks

"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo | Lovers | 25 bookmarks

"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark | Loneliness | 3 bookmarks

"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. | Loneliness | 5 bookmarks

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell | Kisses and Kissing | 3 bookmarks