Quotes

I felt like looking up quotes today. enjoy.


“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” ~ Neil Gaiman


“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable." ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers

"You know than when I hate you, it is because I love you to the point of passion that unhinges my soul." ~ Julie de Lespinasse 

"There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love." ~ Washington Irving 


“The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss has within it that surrender." ~ Emil Ludwig 


"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


"I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love." ~ Marilyn Monroe

"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman." - Barbra Streisand

 "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." ~ Sam Keen

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ~ Dr. Seuss

"... but there comes a time when you've got to decide whether you want to be a fool among fools, or a fool alone." ~  Barbra Streisand from 'Hello, Dolly!'