L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Love...is the immovability of truth.”
“Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
“Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.”
Source: L.A. Candy
“Love..its a missing puzzle piece waiting to be found and when you do find it you can finally figure out the picture life has to show you.”
“Love: a grave mental disease.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.”
“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.”
Source: The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense
“LOVE: Deception of the flesh and damage to the spirit. Disease of the soul, atrophy of the brain, weakening of the heart, corruption of the senses, poetic lies from which one gets ferociously inebriated two or three times a day in order to consume this precious but stupid life more quickly. And yet I would prefer to die of love. Its the only swindler, after Judas, that can kill with a kiss.”
“Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.”
“Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.”
“Love: It will kill you and save you, both”
Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem
“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”
Source: Coyote Blue: A Novel
“Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.”
“Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.”
Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“Love: You can't start it like a car, you can't stop it with a gun.”
“Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it.”
“Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”
“Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.”
“Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need." - ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4”
“Love? It's good. But, as you go on living, it changes. After time passes, all gets forgotten.”
“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
Source: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
“Love`s reason`s without reason”
Source: Cymbeline. Othello
“LOVEBOMBING WAS SWEET... IT WAS EVERYTHING AFTER THAT THAT SUCKED.”
“Loveburnt (The Sonnet)
Jungle creatures look beautiful,
When they are in a habitat that's natural.
The human mind is beautiful when,
Mind and muhabbet are indistinguishable.
Don’t go about looking for your phone,
To google the meaning of muhabbet.
It's just a term for the timeless force of love,
The force at the core of all civilized sentience.
You can't force love, all you can do is,
Be vulnerable and reach out despite your insecurity.
Whether the person of your heart responds back,
Is not in your hands, but a matter of cosmic serendipity.
You may burn in the inferno of hate and fear all you want.
Bearing all snowstorm I stand unbent, ready to be loveburnt.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.”
“Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me”
Source: Danse Macabre
“Lovecraft says he knows about tentacles
but that motherfucker never bedded a girl from
West Chester
and survived
She was a toothache
that one
and she tasted like crack
the best thing about her
was if I was ever hungry
I could always make a meal out of whatever
was making rest at the corners of her mouth
I can't remember her name
as is the case with most of them
then again I can't remember
how many donuts I ate this morning
or how many beers I'll drink tonight,
tomorrow”
Source: Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories
“Loved after death? -Means you were the shit
Hated after death -Means you were the shit
Forgotten after death -Who cares, everyone will be sooner or later, nothing lasts forever”
“Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?”
“Loved ones desperately try to rationalize and defend why they put up with the outrageous behavior of their compulsive gamblers. They use statements such as "I love him," "I know she loves me," "He needs me and would be lost without me," "The children need their mother/father," or "My culture, religion, family do not approve of divorce." These are frequently some of the reasons offered as excuses for doing nothing about the situation.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Loved ones, time, energy, and resources are things you should always look after.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Loved ones want to trust the gamblers, because they believe that trust and love are inseparable.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Loved ones will beg you to stay home but in the same breath refuse to stop mentioning how much money they need. They want you around more but want the all-mighty dollar just as much. So, though you may long for your warm bed at home, you know it will be freezing cold if you don’t come home with money independent of how many blankets you pile upon yourself. Just because fish were worthless this month doesn’t mean the mortgage or price of groceries was adjusted to reflect how terrible the auction was.”
Source: Vicious Cycle: Whiskey, Women, and Water
“Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.”
“Loved people are loving people.”
“loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who”
“Loved with obsessive devotion, hated with barely controlled fury.”
Source: Siren's Song
“Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.”
“Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Loveless moments are to be avoided.”
“Loveless progress is just as dangerous as brainless prejudice.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.”
“Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens.”
“Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.”
“Loveliest of Trees
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.”
Source: A Shropshire Lad
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.”
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”
“Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!”