love heartbroken quotes

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame. ~Adam Duritz, "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby," performed by Counting Crows



I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. ~Will Rogers



Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books. ~Henry David Thoreau



I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ~Benjamin Disraeli



When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown



Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding, "Love in Several Masques"



I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860



Every moment of pleasure in life has to be purchased by an equal moment of pain. ~Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Up the Long Ladder," Danilo O'Dell



Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. ~Anthony Burgess



War would end if the dead could return. ~Stanley Baldwin



Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. ~Lydia Maria Child



What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ~Abraham Lincoln



We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor



Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. ~Author Unknown



Our wedding was many years ago. The celebration continues to this day. ~Gene Perret



Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it. ~Gene Perret



The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air. ~Wilbur Wright



To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target. ~Patrick Toche