Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. Now who's asking the questions? —Jack Handey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not sure at all / if love is salve / or just / a deeper kind of wound. —Erica Jong More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. —Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street and there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and sensual and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterward, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to. —Jonathan Tropper More about this quote Tags: love beauty time taste kiss Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's the thing about flying: you could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see him again. —Jennifer E. Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are. —Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" . . . —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they were not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theater in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The happiness of life . . . is made up of minute fractions — the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a gentle word, a heartfelt compliment. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge More about this quote Tags: life time happiness compliments Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily — no, hourly — and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim. —Thomas Mann More about this quote Tags: silence relationship communication strangers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And then continue on your own way. —Vera Nazarian More about this quote Tags: continuing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
On the late-afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you on the rain-drenched sidewalk? He is covered with an umbrella, and all you can see is a dark coat and the shoes striking the puddles. And yet this person is the hero of his own life story. He is the love of someone's life. And what he can do may change the world. Imagine being him for a moment. —Unknown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. —Hannah Moskowitz in Invincible Summer More about this quote Tags: meaning happiness grief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email