It’s often just enough to be with someone. I
don’t need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you
both. You’re not alone. Marilyn Monroe
Once the realization is accepted that even
between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a
wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the
distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other
whole against the sky. Rainer Maria Rilke
We must get beyond passions, like a great
work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each
other so much to live outside of time… detached. Federico Fellini
Love never dies a natural death. It dies
because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness
and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of
weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot
Love is the voice under all silences, the
hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is
feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star… E.E. Cummings
as a girl where I was a Flower of the
mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls
used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish
wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with
my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my
mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him
down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was
going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. James Joyce
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. Henry Miller
I fell in love with her courage, her
sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d
believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she
wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of
everything. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
i am afraid / that i am not learning fast
enough; i can feel the universe expanding / and it feels like no one has
ever tried hard enough; when i cried in your room /
it was the effect of an extremely distinct sensation that ‘i am the only person / alive,’ ‘i have not learned enough,’ and ‘i can feel the universe expanding / and making things be further apart / and it feels like a declarative sentence / whose message is that we must try harder Tao Lin
it was the effect of an extremely distinct sensation that ‘i am the only person / alive,’ ‘i have not learned enough,’ and ‘i can feel the universe expanding / and making things be further apart / and it feels like a declarative sentence / whose message is that we must try harder Tao Lin
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die
alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion
for the moment that we’re not alone. Orson Welles
Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait
for her to call, go after her because that’s what you should do if you
love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign cause it might
never come, don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you,
or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people
I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the
street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because
they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I
always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who
would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or
be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with
you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t
just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not
everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because
that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways
because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving
someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is
worth anything, really. Harvey Milk
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love
never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where
there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it
will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when
completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I
talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we
see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of
these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-13