Quotations about Love(名人语录---爱)
(2012-10-27 15:25:39)
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每天坚持看国际报刊,一点点觉得不错的名言语录,翻译随后跟上。 A hundred hearts would be too few To carry all my love for you. ~Author Unknown Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. ~Author unknown, as printed in You know you have found love when you can't find your way back. ~Robert Brault Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. ~Lynda Barry Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ~Oscar Wilde, Love cures people梑oth the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ~Karl Menninger If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. ~Cher Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult. ~David Frost Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin Love is not singular except in syllable. ~Marvin Taylor Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~John Ciardi People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~Douglas Yates While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, And trembles then, lest it has done too little. ~Hannah More Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ~Robert Browning Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI" He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. ~Leo Tolstoy It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. ~Marguerite de Valois A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is a winding path walked arm in arm. No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. Love me and the world is mine. It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. The love game is never called off on account of darkness. They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above. Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. An old man in love is like a flower in winter. Will you love me in December as you do in May, Will you love me in the good old fashioned way? When my hair has all turned gray, Will you kiss me then and say, That you love me in December as you do in May? ~James J. Walker I don't think you can keep someone you truly love at arm's length on purpose, they'll always end up in your arms. Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before. Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. Love is the poetry of the senses. Love is a game that two can play and both win. Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't. Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes, After the day's great sun. ~Charles Hanson Towne A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort Love is not consolation. It is light. ~Friedrich Nietzsche True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal A loving heart is the truest wisdom. ~Charles Dickens Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all. ~Robert Brault, Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. ~Fyodor Dostoevski [T]here is no hope for us in this painful, mysterious world save in giving ourselves to love. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ~Elinor Glyn True love, to whom my heart is prey, How dost thou hold me in thy sway, That in each day I find no fault But daily wait for love's assault. ~Pernette du Guillet A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, "I love you." True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love. You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Love is what you've been through with somebody. Love is being stupid together. In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his Open your heart and take us in, Love - love and me. ~W.E. Henley On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face. Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. What an infinity of bliss the possession of your love seemed to me ? the future so full of passionate sweet life that my spirit shrank blinded from trying to explore it; I stopped content with the delicious sense of that moment alone. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch. I love you like crazy, baby 'Cuz I'd go crazy without you. ~Pixie Foudre What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another. I learned the real meaning of love. Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee, It passed into thy lifelong regency. ~Gilbert Parker The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Life only starts when love comes. Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: - So many times do I love again. ~Thomas Lovell Beddoes What good is love if you never ask anything of it? A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. True love stories never have endings. The past is behind us, love is in front and all around us. ~Terri Guillemets It is not that love is blind. I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match. Platonic love is love from the neck up. The music may have stopped but my heart beats to another tune, this rhythm called love. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi Love! Immortality! it speedily became so hot in my breast, that I thought the geographers had misplaced the equator, and that it now ran directly through my heart. And from my heart poured out the feeling of love;梚t poured forth with wild longing into the broad night. The flowers in the garden beneath my window breathed a stronger perfume. Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart feels most powerful emotions in the night, when it believes itself to be alone and unperceived, so also do the flowers, soft-minded, yet ashamed, appear to await for concealing darkness, that they may give themselves wholly up to their feelings, and breathe them out in sweet odours. Pour forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond yon blue mountain for the loved one of my dreams! ~Heinrich Heine, "The Hartz Journey" (1824), Love is not a matter of what happens in life. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu You really shouldn't say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert. ~Robert Brault, So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~John Milton In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved ? sweetest and deepest of all meditations.... ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is. ~Robert Brault Love is the law of life. ~Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. ~Terri Guillemets Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. ~Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, Ah! a blessing beyond all fate My sole mate 'tis my soul mate. ~Pixie Foudre Love is a Mystery. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. Sometimes a couple stays together for the sake of the kids ? two kids who pledged to be forever true. ~Robert Brault I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. You see, I'd never stopped to wonder why it was that millions of boys all over creation weren't seeing her and instantly falling in love with her, worshipping her body and mind and soul and spirit as I did. Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint. What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Love is how you earn your wings. Love is when you can be your true self with someone, and you only want to be your true self because of them. It is really one moment of looking love dead in the eye that takes us everywhere in a flash. ~Swami Chetanananda Once a man has won a woman's love, the love is his forever. Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. We're all a little weird. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you. ~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake - falling in love is. While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love, Love is why I came here in the first place. Your love has gone all through my body like honey in water, as a drug is mixed into spices, as water is mingled with wine.... ~Author Unknown Love is metaphysical gravity. Love is my religion - I could die for it. It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. ~Terri Guillemets Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. A man finds love and is satisfied. Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. Love knows no answer for it does not question. You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. Trip over love, you can get up. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. And what's romance? Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. ~Robert Brault, To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand. I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. I am so tired - so tired. I see too many people, Read too many books. Do too many things. I hate the theaters, I hate my work, I want you, - only you.... Come to me between the cool sheets And let me burrow my head in your shoulder.... ~Pauline Cohn, "Rest" It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. ~Terri Guillemets When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. Come live in my heart and pay no rent. Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Love isn't blind, it's retarded. Free love? as if love is anything but free. Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. A heart that loves is always young. If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. It's hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Terri Guillemets Falling in love is so hard on the knees. In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. |