This page is/will be a compilation of all my favorite quotes...or a chunk of them. I have many...so this page could get very very long.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette Midler

One broken dream is not the end of dreaming;
One shattered hope is not the end of all--
Beyond the storm and tempests, stars are gleaming--
Still build your castles, though your castles fall.

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything...or nothing.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.

In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

I used to hate it when aunts and grandmas, used to come up to me at weddings and pinch my cheeks and say "Your next" "Your next". Well they stopped doin that crap when i started to do it to them at funerals.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.

Someone asked me the other day: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details."

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

Memories.
They are what saves you from your own destruction, and they are what destroy.

The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to stay, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
Jacqueline Roque, wife of Pable Picasso

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

There is no such thing as security. There never has been.

If two lovers part and still remain friends they are either still in love or they never were.

If you can't love me at my worst then you don't need me at my best.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

A final comfort that is small, but not cold: The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it
over and over again.

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

When love is lost, do not bow your head in sadness; instead keep your head up high and gaze into heaven for that is where your broken heart has been sent to heal.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways.

I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.

I prithee send me back my heart,
Since I cannot have thine;
For if from yours you will not part,
Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Yes, I will go. I would rather grieve over your absence than over you.

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.

How can something bother you if you won't let it?

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.

You have to take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you’ve got, remember what you had. Always forgive, never forget, learn from mistakes, never regret. People change, things go wrong. But always remember, life goes on.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Things do not change; we change.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was.

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had....

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

I am a miser of my memories of you, And will not spend them.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.

An unwatched pot boils immediately.

If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

Never do anything that you wouldn't want to explain to the paramedics.

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

No one is listening until you fart.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

The past is a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

It's not what if, it's what now.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time

We steal if we touch tomorrow, it is God’s

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.

In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.

Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.

True love stories never have endings.

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky.

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.

Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.

True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them.

Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you.

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Sticks and stones are hard on bones
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything
But silence breaks the heart.

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

I like her because she smiles at me and means it.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same.

If fame were based on kindness instead of popularity, on understanding and not on worldwide attention, you would be the biggest celebrity on earth. And to my heart, you already are.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.


When two lovers part and still remain friends, they either are still in love or they never were

Only someone who has cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

True love is like Santa, you grow up believing in it then find out it just doesn't exist.

Just when you graduated from the school of experience, someone thinks up a new course.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Yes, there are a lot of fish in the sea, but I think there's a hole in my net.

They say follow your heart. But when your heart is in so many pieces. Which way are you to follow?

If you love something, and are dumb enough to let it go...you didn't deserve it in the first place.

It’s hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does!

Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.

Sometimes you do things that you don’t want to do but in the end it turns out to be the right thing after all.

It is only fear of loneliness if you are dating someone you hate, fear, and/or are repulsed by.

If he really loves you, it won't take another man for him to realize that.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

It's better to have never loved at all, than to have been in love and felt its fall.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge, we would get somewhere.

Everyone is a book of blood when opened we are red.

I know what it's like to feel alone. And, that's why I stay alone, because I never want to feel alone again.

Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

You can tell a man 'I hate you,' and you'll have the best sex of your life, but tell him, 'I love you' and you'll probably never see him again.”

Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

If you had to chose between someone you love or someone who loves you, pick the person who loves you because you can learn to love someone but you cant make someone love you back.

The world is round and the place which seems like the end may also be the beginning.

When the sun isn't out don't cry, your tears will block you from seeing the stars.

Every time you talk to me, I feel so special inside, but when you ask me how I feel, all I could do is lie.

I smiled when you showed me how to confine in a guy. I laughed when you lifted me of my feet and showed me how to fly across the sky. I cried when you showed me the true meaning of good-bye.

Two teardrops were floating down the river. One teardrop said to the other, “I'm the teardrop of a girl who loved a man and lost him, who are you?"... I'm the teardrop of the man who
regretted letting a girl go!"

There would come a time when we have to stop loving someone not because that person started hating us, but because we found out that they'd be happier if we let them go.

I can say I'm fine when you don't see me cry. I can say I could move on when I can't even try. I can say I'm happy when I just want to die, but there's one thing I can't say... "I love you" when you said, "goodbye."

I cry for the time you were almost mine, I cry for the memories you've left behind. I cry for the pain, the lost, the old, and the new... I cry for the times I thought I had you.

It's hard to pretend you love someone if you really don't, but it's harder to pretend you don't love someone if you really do.

Love is a gamble! Sometimes you win, other time you lose. But no matter what your cards are in this gamble, whether spades or diamonds; remember never ever play with the "Heart."

When you love someone you must be ready to sacrifice anything, even if that anything includes your happiness.

Once you say "I love you" to a person, you automatically give that person the right to hurt you.

Love can make you happy, but oftentimes it hurts, but love is only special when you give it to whom it's worth.

Look not for beauty, nor for the color of skin, but look for a heart that is loyal within. For the beauty fades and the skin will grow old, but a heart that is loyal, will never turn cold.

There's a light in your eyes, but it's too bright too see, and a place in my heart where you used to be. I guess I was wrong to believe you were waiting for me, because there's a light in your eyes, but it's not for me.

Never expect love to be always at its best because if you do you'll never appreciate its existence. Remember that there will always be one true love for you to have and to hold. It may not be the one you expect, but it's the one you deserve.

Sometimes we need to be hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. We must lose in order to gain. Some lessons are learned best through pain.

I told him I loved him and the feelings were mutual...he loved himself too!

Watching you walk out of my life doesn't make me bitter or cynical about love, but rather it makes me wonder. If I so much wanted to be with the wrong one, how wonderful it will be when the right one comes along.

Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

What is better? A lie that draws a smile or the truth that draws a tear?

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

Have you ever wondered which hurts more: saying something and wishing you hadn't or saying nothing and wishing you had?

It would be great if people never got angry at someone for doing something they've done themselves.

Once my flame, twice my burn.

Why would God let us meet....If there is no way we can be together.

We go through life thinking someone else will make us happy... We're wrong. Happiness is our job, but we do need someone else to share it with.

Nothing is more painful then realizing the meant everything to you and you meant nothing to him.

Sometimes I wish I had never met you because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.

Things are not what they seem, but are what they are

I think its better to let go and see if they come back than to hold on and see if they let go.

Life is like riding a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Just when you think you've had too much, life gives you more, just when you think its rained, it starts to pour.

I finally that you were never meant for me, and you don’t really matter at all

So why did it take so long for us to realize that this whole time the person we were crazy about was the person we never even thought of?

Once again, I find myself trying to be okay with the fact that we're just friends, but then you grab my hand and then, well, I'm not okay, I'm floating....

He's my best friend, you know? The kind where at the end of the day I love to come home just to talk to him. The kind where I long for the weekend so I can see him. He's more than my best friend; he's my world....

You're not my friend; friends don't look at each other like we do...

The worst part about falling for your best friend is watching him fall for another girl...

You break my heart into a thousand pieces and you say it's because I deserve better?

Before I met you, I never knew what it was like to look at someone, and *smile* for no reason...

Hold me. Whatever lies beyond this morning is a little later on. Regardless of warnings, the future doesn't scare me at all. Nothing is like before...

You look. He looks. And you walk away wondering if yours had the same affect.

You don't need to be "together" to get your heartbroken.

If you get caught looking at him, just remember he was looking back.

It's funny. Most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened.

The better you know someone, the less there is to say or maybe there's less that needs to be said...

All girls are suspicious of girls that are "just friends" because we know the guys we've had that were "just friends" that we once thought of as more that a friend.

"I don't know. I mean, I want to be his friend. But then again, I don't. You know? I mean how can you simply be friends with someone when every time you look at them, you're thinking about how much more you really want?"

"I've learned that guys make the best friends. My best friend is a guy and I can tell him anything. Oh! Except for the fact that I'm absolutely crazy for him -- I always seem to leave that part out of the conversation."

Everything I want to tell him is everything I wish he’d say.....

I'm jealous of every girl that ever hugged him because for that one moment she held my entire world.

"There's no love like lost love, and no pain like a broken heart. There's no love like you and me, and no loss like us apart."

"A thousand words couldn't bring you back, I know because I've tried. Neither could a thousand tears, I know because I've cried. You left behind a broken heart and happy memories too. But I never wanted memories, I only wanted you."

"I used to smile when I told people you were mine, but now I can't even smile and say your name at the same time."

"I want to cry, really I do but I guess I just don’t want to give you the satisfaction of knowing that you hurt me....once again."

"If I'd have known the way that this would end, if I'd have read the last page first, if I'd have had the strength to walk away, if I'd have known how this would hurt, I would have loved you anyway, I'd do it all the same, not a second I would change, not a touch that I would trade, had I known my heart would break, I'd have loved you anyway."

"He's the reason I'm messed up, the reason I can't get myself into another relationship, No matter how hard I try, no matter how bad I want to, I'm scared. I'm not scared of getting hurt....I'm scared of hurting someone else. I don’t want anyone to feel how he made me feel. I dont want anyone to hurt that bad."

"But it's not so bad, you're only the best I ever had, you don't want me back, you're just the best I ever had."

"How can you possibly look into my eyes and not see that I've been in love with you since the moment this all began? Perhaps the better question is… how could you not care?"

Sometimes you think you're over a person. But when you see him smile you suddenly realize you're just pretending to ease the pain of knowing he'll never be yours.

Still, there must have been something at the beginning, that perfectly normal unknowable raw human thing that’s beautiful before everything turns to shit. –(?), from an article on Madalyn Murray O’Hare

…somehow I couldn’t stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you. –Jennifer Weiner, Good in Bed

I stood back and let the ocean cool my feet and felt…nothing. Or maybe it was the end of love that I was feeling, the cool empty place that’s left inside you where all that heat and pain and passion used to be, the slick of wet sand after the tide finally rolls back out. –ditto

Love is the rug they pull out from under you. Love is Lucy always lifting the football at the last second so that Charlie Brown falls on his ass. Love is something that every time you believe in it, it goes away. Love is for suckers, and I’m not going to be a sucker ever again. –ditto

God is closest to those with broken hearts. –Jewish saying

I think only stupid people have good relationships. –Thora Birch, in “Ghost World”

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. –Matt Groening, Love is Hell

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. –ditto

It must happen to everyone. The last time you make love, you can’t know it will be the last. –Joyce Carol Oates, “Summer Sweat”

Our most fervent wish is for a former lover’s defeat, deprived of our love; at the very least, we wish to appear transcendent, indifferent, wholly free of that lost love. –ditto

Why is it that we can’t always recognize the moment that love begins, but we always know when it ends? –Steve Martin, in “LA Story”

Nothing hurts worse than when the one you love doesn’t choose you. –from “Grand Canyon”

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you...
–Amy Lowell, “The Letter”

Huge events take place on this earth every day. Earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move. So why couldn’t he just look at me? –Claire Danes, in “My So-Called Life”

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. –Charlie Brown

Love. Let me tell you about love. Either you love more or you love less, and the one who loves more ends up fucked. –Goldberry Long, Juniper Tree Burning

The hardest thing in the world is to reveal a hidden love. –Ho Shuang-Ch’ing

Unspoken love is like a poison. If you don’t spit it out, it will eat you up inside. –(?)

Love hurts when you break up with someone. It hurts even more when someone breaks up with you but it hurts the most when the person you love has no idea about how you feel. –(?)

Why hide your feelings to the one you love? Why love the one who loves another? Why give everything if only pain comes in return? Why wait if there’s nothing to wait for? I guess the answer is love. –(?)

Ask me why I keep on loving you when it’s clear that you don’t feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can’t force you to love me, I can’t force myself to stop loving you. –(?)

You were blinded by the flames in me… Maybe I don’t know what love is, but it isn’t this. –Tara MacLean, “Blinded”

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned. –William Congreve

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly. –DH Lawrence, Women in Love

She thought that this man was her savior, that he had come to her at a time in her life when her life demanded completion, an end, a permanent fixing of all that was troubled and shifting and deadly. And yet it was absurd to think this. No person could save another. So she drew back from him and released him. –Joyce Carol Oates, “The Lady with the Pet Dog”

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. –Alice Munro, “Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You”

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat. –Margaret Atwood, “The Age of Lead”

Love is the pursuit of shadows… –Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

True love is usually the result of self-delusion and substance abuse. –(?)

Love is the worst of lies one can tell oneself. –Lydie-Anne, in “Lilies”

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases. –Françoise Sagan

Love: a grave mental disease. –Plato

Love is a hole in the heart. –Ben Hecht

Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. –William Shakespeare, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death. –Colette Dowling

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative. –Francine Pascal, Fearless

Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. The second you meet someone that you’re going to fall in love with you deliberately become a moron. You do this in order to fall in love, because it would be impossible to fall in love with any human being if you actually saw them for what they are. –Fran Lebowitz

Each man kills the thing he loves. –Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”

My heart is as pure as the driven slush. –Tallulah Bankhead

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol. –Ernest Hemingway

Love is the state in which man sees things most decidedly as they are not. –Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, making egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and making the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. –Germaine Greer

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. –HL Mencken

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal. –Hart Crane

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. –George Bernard Shaw

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn’t clicking right. –Johnny Rotten

The intellect is always fooled by the heart. –François de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

Love blinds all men alike, both the reasonable and the foolish. –Menander, Andria

We are easily duped by those we love. –Molière, “Tartuffe”

Love is a kind of warfare. –Ovid, Ars amatoria

Boy Meets Girl, So What? –Bertold Brecht

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. –Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea

Marriage is a desperate thing. –John Selden, Marriage

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a drowning person holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you in his panic. –Anaïs Nin

In our lives, we hunger for those we cannot touch. –(?)

After all, there’s a reason they say that love is a two-edged sword, rather than a two-edged Wiffle bat or a two-edged Fudgsicle, because love is sharp, it pierces…it can also cut, cut deep, wound, kill. –Dean Koontz, Seize the Night

Falling in love doesn’t kill people. Landing does. –Fang

One who looks for love where there is none to be found is a fool the whole year round. –anonymous

Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac. –Madonna

It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say? –George Michael, “Cowboys and Angels”

The more you ignore me, the closer I get. –Morrissey, “The More You Ignore Me”

Once upon a time I was falling in love; now I’m only falling apart… –Bonnie Tyler, “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. –Bette Midler, “The Rose”

I know I love you, because I hate you, and now I’d rather haunt you. –Madonna, “Bye Bye Baby”

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? …you’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now. –Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

 I'm scared to fall more in love with you.
There are plenty of other girls out there that are better then me.
So why are you settling for me?

I hope every time she breaks your heart
you think of me and how good I was to you

Love? It's kind of complicated, but I'll tell you this...
the second you're willing to make yourself miserable
to make someone else happy, that's love right there

I cant move on, because the only thing I can find wrong with you,
is that you can find so many things wrong with me...

Having your boyfriend break up with you and saying "We can still be friends"
is like having your dog die, and your mom saying you can still keep it

The worst thing a guy can do is make a girl
Fall for him when he has no intention of catching her

Don't be afraid to tell someone you love them.
If you do...they might break your heart...
But if you don't... you might break theirs.

Its amazing how someone can break your heart
But yet you still love them with every broken piece

Don’t lead me on and leave me all confused,
any girl would rather be alone, than have her heart abused.

You'll never know how much I miss you, you won't see it in my face,
You'll never know there won't be another guy to take your place cause
I'll be smiling when I see you, no my tears won't ever show,
I might always love you, but you'll never know...

Everyone says to give up on you, but they don't see you like I do.
you're the one who broke my heart, you're the reason my world fell apart
you're the one who made me cry, yet I still love you and I don't know why

Someone is going to hurt you at some point in your life
its up to you to decided who is worth it and who is not

I was with him so long, I grew to be so strong
Now were not together, I'm weaker than ever

Age does not protect you from love,
but love to some extent protects you from age.

The only guy that deserves you, is the one that thinks he doesn’t.
The one that’ll stick by your side, no matter how much you mess up
And the one who will forgive you, mistake after mistake...

I don't know if there's only one person in the
entire world that you're meant to be with , but
when you and I are together, it sure feels that way

True love cannot be found where it does not truly exist,
nor can it be hidden where it truly does.
Love is magic. The more we hide it, the more it shows;
more you suppress it, the more it grows.

Never question if it is love or not, because if it was, you wouldn't need to ask

As you look back upon your life, you find the times when
you have most lived, are the times when you have lived for love

Love is being able to walk arm in arm. Even when you don't see eye to eye

The first time I saw you, I knew it was true,
I'd love you forever and that’s what I'll do.
You don't know what you do to me; you don't have a clue.
You have no idea what it’s like to be me, looking at you.

The most selfish thing you can do is stay in a
relationship you're not committed to.

You don't love someone because they're beautiful.
They're beautiful because you love them.

Love is when all you care about is that one person,
no one could hurt you more and yet no one can make you happier

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others

And the darkness came as fast as it went.
Happiness and laughter quickly fled.
The smile upon this face turned instantly to tears.
Confidence and esteem morphed into fears.
But after the tears have dried
And no more could be cried.
I realized the tables have turned.
We aren't meant to be, it was a lesson learned.

We just have to get up, and keep walking.
Because as much as we'd like it to be true,
This isn't a movie or any of that crap.
In real life you get yourself up and brush yourself off.

Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life.
But I'd rather be your moon, so I can shine on you
during your darkest hour when your sun isn't

I'm mad at myself, not you. I'm mad for always being nice,
always apologizing for things I didn't do, for getting attached,
for making you my life, depending on you, wasting my time on you,
thinking about you, following you, changing for you, forgiving you,
wishing for you, dreaming of you, and most of all...
for not hating you which I know I should... but I can't.

Just because I'm the one who ended it
Doesn't mean anything could have changed.
Don't go acting like its my fault.
You aren't the victim, you and I both know to this day
when I left you were already walking away...

Your eyes fill with tears... as he speaks softly into your ear...
you want to believe him when he says that you'll still be friends.
You know you'll get over it within time. But you'll never forget his touch ,
or his smile.. even more, when he wiped that tear away
from your eyes and said... "You're still beautiful when you cry"

May god send down a dove, with wings as sharp as razors,
to spear the heart of any guy who loves a girl and then betrays her

Not to be overly dramatic, I just think its best
cause you can't miss what you forget.
so lets just pretend everything between
you and me was never meant

Trying to forget someone you loved is like
trying to remember someone you never knew

They ignore each other & look the
other way; but they both know
deep down inside, that it wasn’t
supposed to end this way

I wanted everything to stay the same
but feelings fade and people change
I'm living every moment like its my last
No longer letting my future be based on my past

You promised, but you lied.
You hurt me, and broke my heart inside.
We are so way past done.
But I still think you could be the one.
And after everything you put me through...
I think I'm still in love with you.
But I have to face every fact,
I simply can't have you back.

Now you're alone and empty, bitter
To put it simply I know you miss me
And that must be a hard pill to swallow
I feel for your girl, I'm a hard act to follow\

This time it's over, I'm keeping my heart
I'm going to be strong and not fall apart...
It'll get better, I'll no longer cry...
In a couple of weeks, I wont want to die,
I won't want to go back, I'll be able to sleep,
It won't hurt so bad, and it won't feel so deep

I don't want you to love me
I don't want you to care
I don't want you wishing that I was there
If you really love and you do truly care
than stop spending nights wishing I was there

I've been trying not to love you, I've been putting up a fight.
I've been barely holding on, and letting go with all my might.
There's a part of me that's empty, I know only love can fill.
I'm afraid I'll never fill it, and scared to death I will

When you don't have anybody, then no one ever says goodbye.
You don't have to wait for someone to make you laugh, or make you cry...

I'm not the girl that runs up to you when I see you
And I'm not the girl who jumps at every moment
To talk to you, but I am the girl who keeps it all inside
And regrets it all later....

I don't have the words to make you feel better
but I do have the arms to hug you,
I have the ears to listen to whatever you want
I have a heart that is aching to see you smile again

When someone you love abandons you, it doesn't hurt just because
they've changed, or lied, or went back on their promises,
but because you know what they really are and what a beautiful person
they can be. And when they take that away from you and
won't let you see that beautiful person again,
well nothing hurts more than having someone just decide
to take your entire world away without consulting you first.

I want to be remembered as the one who
Always smiles even when her heart is broken,
And the one who would always brighten up your day
Even when she couldn’t brighten up her own

There's a smile on my face but I don't know why its there
I put it on to satisfy all the people that don't even care

No smile is more beautiful than the one that struggles through tears

If you love someone, then tell them
because hearts are often broken by words left unspoken

Someday you will be sorry, Someday when you're free
Memories will remind you, that we were meant to be

I don't use excuses, don't ask why
It's just a breakdown, it happens all the time
So get out of my face, don't even try
You want to help me? Just let me cry

My heart has been beaten and bruised
and I'm pretty fucking confused, & I always expect to lose.
I'll explain it all to you through alcohol and bad tattoos
If I talk and I laugh too loud its because I'm trying to forget that I'm sad,
because some things can get pretty bad, but I'd like to believe
that somewhere I'll find you going nowhere... and we'll go there together

If you look inside a girl's heart
You'd see how much she really cries
You'll find hidden secrets, best friends, and lies
But what you'll see the most
Is how hard it is to stay strong
When nothing's right, and everything is wrong

When will it be my turn, when will I ever get anything in return?
Why must I be the one to suffer all this pain,
and yet in the end have nothing to gain?


Sometimes when I say “Oh, I’m fine” I want someone
to look me in the eyes & say “tell the truth”


When someone really loves you, they will never hurt you.
And if they do, you can see it in their eyes that it hurts them too...


If you ask yourself the question, is it really worth the pain?
The answer might surprise you because the sun is worth the rain.


The darkest skies have the brightest stars


If you don't know, then ask me. If you don't agree, then argue with me.
If you don't like, then say it to me. But don't keep silent and judge me.

You can't hurt someone unless you really mean something to them

Man it takes a silly girl
to lie about the dreams she has.
But lord, it takes a lonely girl to wish
that she had never dreamt at all.

Not all scars show, not all wounds heal
Sometimes you can't always see
The pain someone feels

God saw you were getting tired, and a cure was not meant to be
So he put his arms around you, and whispered come with me
With tearful eyes we watched you, as we saw you pass away
Although we love you deeply, we could not make you stay
Your golden heart stopped beating, hard working hands at rest
God broke our hearts to prove to us... He only takes the best

For now we'll say goodbye.
We know it's not the last time,
I've lost the best part of my day.
This is the last thing I, I will remember.
It's better where you're going anyway

If tears could build a stairway
And memories were a lane
I would walk right up to Heaven
and bring you home again.

The cemeteries are filled with people
who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

When you're a beautiful person on the inside,
there is nothing in the world that can change that about you.
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth,
and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself,
then certainly no one else will.

Don't tell your problems to people:
80% don't care
20% are glad you have them

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it,
If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Do it today. Tomorrow it might be illegal.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something,
without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Never regret the things that made you smile,
Just learn from the tears that followed

You can't have a better tomorrow if
you are thinking about yesterday all the time

Anyone who thinks sunshine is pure happiness, has never danced in the rain

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are

Happiness doesn't mean that everything is perfect,
it just means that you have decided to look past the imperfections.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Fear is temporary, Regret is forever

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to see the ways in which you yourself have altered

Many a great man or woman has failed
because they had their wishbone
where their backbone should've been.

Gentle words, like summer rain, soothe the heart and banish pain
So when you have a feeling that often springs,
you'll find it's best to look back on the simple things

Never make someone a priority if you are only an option.

Don't look down on anyone unless your helping them up

I've learned that life is like hour glass sand.
Sooner or later, everything hits rock bottom,
but all you have to do is be patient and wait
for something to turn everything around.

Never give up if u still want to try
Never wipe your tears if u still want to cry
Never settle for the answer if u still want to know
Never say u don't like him if u can't let him go

Don't worry about knowing people, make yourself worth knowing

People are going to talk about you, especially when they envy you and
the life you have, let them. You affected their lives, they didn't affect yours.

Be more concerned about your character then your
reputation because your character is who you are
and your reputation is what others think of you.

My interest is in the future because I am
going to spend the rest of my life there.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe
and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

It was fate that we met
choice that we became friends
but falling in love with you
was beyond my control!

Can't waste time over missing something in the past.
Life changes, people grow up and grow apart, and you accept that.
Yet you still can't stop thinking of how good it used to be.
Afraid you'll never experience something like it again;
Afraid you've already lived it and already lost it.

Why is it that the most beautiful things in life are the most dangerous?
Sunlight, trust & love are just a few...
In life there will be sunburn, broken promises, & of course, broken hearts.

The two hardest things to say in life
are hello for the first time
and goodbye for the last

In three words I can explain what I've learned about life, it goes on.

There will always be the people you can't believe you were friends with,
guys you can't believe you actually kissed,
and people you can't believe you lived without.

Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence

The trouble with life is that you are halfway through it
before you realize it's a "do-it-yourself" thing.

I hope life isn't a big joke because I don't get it.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.
You don't have to live forever; you just have to live

If you want to lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd

Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting "Holy Shit...What a Ride!"

As you slide down the banister of life, may your ass collect many splinters

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like
expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian

Life is not waiting for the storm to pass,
but learning to dance in the rain

The only people you need in life are the ones that need you in theirs

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself

Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield.

When you were born, you cried and everyone smiled.
Live your life so that when you die,
everyone cries and you're the only one smiling

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at
midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in
our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

However long the night, the dawn will break.