Love & Life Sayings

208 sayings found from the Modern era from 208 authors

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

— Robert Frost 1942
Love & Relationships

I have certainly come to think that the dead are alive.

— William Butler Yeats 1926
Life & Death

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life.

— Pablo Neruda Unknown
Love & Relationships

The water in the river is not the same water that was there a moment ago.

— Rabindranath Tagore early 20th century
Nature & World

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

— Chinua Achebe 1964
Life & Death

A man who is not afraid to die is not afraid to live.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968
Life & Death

There are some enterprises in which a complete obnubilation of the brain seems indispensable.

— Herman Melville 1851
Nature & World

If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion.

— Mary Shelley 1818
Love & Relationships

The human brain is an amazing thing. It works 24/7, 365 from birth until you fall in love.

— H.G. Wells Uncertain
Love & Relationships

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'living infinite'.

— Jules Verne 1870
Love & Relationships

I want to be a woman who is a wife and mother, but also a famous writer. I want to have a life of my own, and not just be an appendage to a man.

— Sylvia Plath 1956
Love & Relationships

My witness is the empty sky.

— Jack Kerouac 1958
Nature & World

The only thing that endures is love.

— Allen Ginsberg 1980s
Love & Relationships

Life has become immeasurably more interesting since I decided to follow the advice of my wife and my analyst: to be myself.

— Hunter S. Thompson 1959
Love & Relationships

I am a devil, and you, my friend, are a demon.

— Alexander Pushkin 1826
Life & Death

I have been in love with a great many women, and never loved one of them.

— Lord Byron 1812
Love & Relationships

I built my house near the sea. I built my house near the sea. And I love the sea. And I love the sea. And I love the sea.

— Langston Hughes 1925
Love & Relationships

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

— James Baldwin 1965
Love & Relationships

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peak of the mountain and caught the honey of the sun in my hair.

— Zora Neale Hurston 1942
Nature & World

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

— Federico Garcia Lorca 1933
Life & Death
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