W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“What is love?...When you see stars in someone's eyes though the night has gone thick...”
“What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.”
“What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?”
“What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.”
“What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.”
Source: The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga
“What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the one who feels compassion. In kindness there are two: the one who gives and the one who receives. But in love there is only one; the two join, unite, become inseparable. The I and the you vanish. To love means to lose oneself in the beloved.”
“What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!”
“What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!”
“What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you.”
Source: The Consequences Series: Box Set
“What is love? Love to me is god.”
“What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”
Source: Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 11-15
“What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.”
Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry
“What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.”
Source: The Name of the Rose
“What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.”
“What is love? When you love somebody then I mean we all want good things to happen to ourselves and keep the bad things at bay. When you love somebody you want that as much for them if not more than you do for yourself.”
“What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.”
Source: Thrall: Poems
“What is love?” “I don’t know.” “Love is the name given to the bond Kemal feels with Füsun whenever they travel along highways or sidewalks; visit houses, gardens, or rooms; or whenever he watches her sitting in tea gardens and restaurants, and at dinner tables.” “Hmmm … that’s a lovely answer,~ But isn’t love what you feel when you can’t see me?” “Under those circumstances, it becomes a terrible obsession, an illness.”
Source: The Museum of Innocence
“What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.”
“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems
“What is loyalty? The honor of love.”
“What is luck but something made to run out.”
Source: Half-Blood Blues: A Novel
“What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.”
“What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“What is madness if not everything that science has not yet managed to prove?”
Source: No, You're Crazy
“What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.”
Source: A Phoenix Too Frequent
“What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.”
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French
“What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It's the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.”
“What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.”
Source: Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)
“What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.”
Source: The Truth About Style
“What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.”
“What is male and female? Is it just a physical condition? No. The energy runs very, very differently in a woman than in a man.”
“What is "male privilege," and why is it important to name the elephant in the living room? My friend Patricia Monaghan (of blessed memory) describes it this way: "For those who have male privilege, it's like a person wearing strong perfume. Rarely can the wearer smell it, but those around begin to leave the room.”
Source: Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights
“What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?”
Source: Under the Volcano
“What is man but his passion?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
“What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.”
“What is man that thou art mindful of him? Melancholy. Men, in a smoking room, recounting their conquests to one another. Was it, as always assumed, a mere boastfulness, a mere rooster crow from the dunghill? No… It was the passionate desire to recreate, to live over again those inestimable instants of life, so tragically few, so irrecoverably lost. ‘That reminds me of one time when I was staying——’ Yes, you can see the wretched man trying to summon them back, those few paltry episodes, and make of them, for his solace, a tiny immortal bouquet.”
Source: Blue Voyage
“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit”
Source: Chief Seattle's Testimony
“What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own.”
“What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.”
“What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck: Now First Collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings, from Drawings by American Artists
“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”
Source: Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
“What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?”
“What is man?
Hope turned to dust.
No.
What is man?
Dust turned to hope.”
“What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.”
“What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
Source: ANTI-MEMOIRS
“What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?”
Source: Legends of Our Time
“What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.”
Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”
Source: Mark Twain in eruption: hitherto unpublished pages about men and events
“What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda