Lovingly Quotes (page 510)

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• she
• charming
• moments

At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always! Marcel Proust

• die
• pain
• love

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it. Jonathan Franzen

• love
• never
• namely

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. Oscar Wilde

• love
• tough
• feeling

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else. Glenn Beck

• true
• choose
• true love

The bottom line is that you have to choose who you are going to commit to-- that's the foundation of true love, not the lack of other options Stephenie Meyer

• happy love
• love
• happy

Happiness is loving your enemies. Charles M. Schulz

• change
• wall
• love

This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. Daphne du Maurier

• love
• comics
• exactness

[T]he most comic things of all are exactly the things most worth doing--such as making love. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• love
• to live
• my love

You have to live to really know things, my love Dan Simmons

• love him
• hope
• spring

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy. Harold Brodkey

• charming
• love
• view

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• ambition
• study
• love

I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination But my life. For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment; Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid; Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat. To put meaning in... Edgar Lee Masters

• love
• fear
• humanity

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact. Peter S. Beagle

• love
• suffers
• sufferings

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. Sigmund Freud

• love
• solitude
• clumsy

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. Virginia Woolf