Lovely Quotes - Page 3

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Night, Light

  A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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• Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

  Caroline Knapp

  Giving, Missing, World

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• What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Art, Simple

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.180, eBookIt.com

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• Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’

  Eric Bentley

  Running, Spring, Flower

  Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press

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• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Judging

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on "Save the Date" and Her Raunchy Comedy "Bachelorette". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Oil

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.2014, Library of Alexandria

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• One thing I can say about our band is this. If you got something good to lay on us, enlighten us, but if you got something bad to lay on us, you can get your teeth knocked clean down your throat man. Dangerous people. Lovely people.

  Duane Allman

  Men, People, Teeth

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Looks, World

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• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Prayer, Live Life

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flower

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.

  Amy Tan

  Life, Destroyed

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• Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.

  Gayle Forman

  Sacrifice, People

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• This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.

  Selena Gomez

  Wind, Fairytale, Happy Endings

  Song: The Heart Wants What It Wants, Album: For You, 2014

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• I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.

  Connor Franta

  Want

  "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 08, 2014.

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• Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days.

  Taylor Swift

  Fall, Autumn, Pieces

  Song: All Too Well, Album: Red, 2012

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• What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

  Audrey Meadows

  Sorry, Guy, Dresses

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• There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Flower, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Old Curiosity Shop”, p.238

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• Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
  The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
  Great Nature has another thing to do
  To you and me, so take the lively air,
  And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
  
  This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
  What falls away is always. And is near.
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fall, Sleep, Light

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.165, Anchor

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• During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head.'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse.Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Mother, Dirty, Flower

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• Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Tree, Forests

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• I loved the sea. I loved steamers and sailboats and surf and sailors. And I yearned and strained to the sea, always the sea, for it is a lovely, vicious lonely thing. In its limitless variety I had a sort of HOME.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lonely, Home, Sea

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