Favourite Quotes
- Loneliness
- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 – 1961)
- Love
- The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung (1875 – 1961)
- Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 – 2000), Charlie Brown in “Peanuts”
- To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
- David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
- One’s first love is always perfect until one meets one’s second love.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. … ouch…
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
- What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
- Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
- Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999)
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
- Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817), Northanger Abbey
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