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My Very Favourite Quotes (They're mostly about love...)
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." --Anaïs Nin
"Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords." --The Earl of Sterling
"O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them?" --Ludovick Barry
"There's not a wind but whispers of thy name; and not a flow'r that grows beneath the moon, but in its hues and fragrance tells a tale of thee, my love." --Barry Cornwall
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever, its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." --John Keats
"When I forget that the stars shine in air, when I forget that beauty is in stars---Shall I forget thy beauty." --Thomson
"That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express." --Bacon
"Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candour, generosity, modesty, and heroism." --St. Pierre
"The heart will break, yet brokenly live on." --Lord Byron
"In simple and pure soul I come to you." --William Shakespeare
"Sweet as refreshing dews or summer showers, to the long parching thirst of drooping flowers; grateful as fanning gales to fainting swains and soft as trickling balm to bleeding pains. Such are thy words." --Gay
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart." --Charles Dickens
"The passions and desires, like the two twists of rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate." --Burton
"Fate steals along with silent tread, found oftenest in what least we dread; frowns in the storm with angry brow, but in the sunshine strikes the blow." --William Cowper
"So we grew together. Like to a double cherry, seeming parted but yet a union in partition, two lovely berries moulded on one stem; so, with two seeming bodies, but one heart." --William Shakespeare
"Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn." --Addison
"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." --Aristotle
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." --Prov. xiii, 12
"My lips pressed themselves involuntarily to hers--a long, long kiss, burning intense--concentrating emotion, heart, soul, all the rays of life's light, into a single focus." --Bulwer
"Kiss the tear from her lip, you'll find the rose the sweeter for the dew." --Webster
"Love not! Love not! The thing you love may change. The rosy lip may cease to smile on you, the kindly beaming eye grow cold and strange, the heart still warmly beat, and not for you." --Mrs Norton
"The more we love the nearer we are to hate." -- La Rochefoucauld
"I know a passion still more deeply charming than fever'd youth e'er felt; and that is love, by long experience mellow'd into friendship." --Thomson
"She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm in the bud feed, on her damask cheek; she pined in thought; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like patience on a monument, smiling at grief." --William Shakespeare
"For oh so wildly do I love him that paradise itself were dim and joyless if not shared with him." --Thomas Moore
"To her love was like the air of heaven ---invisible, intangible; it yet encircled her soul, and she knew it; for in it was her life." --Mrs M'Intosh
"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, tears from the depth of some divine despair, rise in the heart and gather in the eyes, in looking on the happy autumn fields and thinking of the days that are no more." --Alfred Lord Tennyson
"None acted mourning forced to show, or squeeze his eyes to make the torrent flow." --John Dryden
"Passions, like seas, will have their ebbs and flows." --Lee
" 'Tis in my memory lock'd, and you yourself shall keep the key of it." --William Shakespeare
"The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns." --Thomas Moore
"Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile." --Thomas Campbell
"Life hangs upon me and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, and grief, and rage and love rise up at once, and with variety of pain distract me." --Unknown
"There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes and feelings." --William Matthews
"Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive for things that are not to be remedied." --Shakespeare
"All was ended now, the hope, the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, all the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!" --Addison
"Sometimes something hurts so much it doesn't seem right to share it with anyone else." --Josie Lawrence in The Outside Edge
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A Whiter Shade Of Pale --Procul Harum--
We skipped the light fandango,
turned cartwheels ?cross the floor.
I was feeling kind of seasick.
The crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away.
When we called out for another drink,
the waiter brought a tray.
And so it was that later,
as the miller, told his tale,
that her face, at first, just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale.
She said, "I'm home on shore leave."
Though, in truth, we were at sea.
So I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree.
Saying, "You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride."
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died.
And so it was that later,
as the miller told his tale,
that her face, at first, just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale.
She said, "There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see,"
but I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast.
And although my eyes were open,
they might just as well be closed.
And so it was that later,
as the miller told his tale,
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale.
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Yellow --Coldplay--
Look at the stars.
Look how they shine for you
and everything that you do.
Yeah, they were all yellow.
I came along,
I wrote a song for you
and all the things you do
and it was called "Yellow."
So, then I took my turn.
Oh, what a thing to have done
and it was all yellow.
You're skin.
Oh yeah, you're skin and bones,
turning into something beautiful.
You know I love you so.
You know I love you so.
I swam across,
I jumped across for you.
Oh, what a thing to do,
?cos you were all yellow.
I drew a line,
I drew a line for you.
Oh, what a thing to do,
and it was all yellow.
You're skin,
oh yeah, you're skin and bones,
turning into something beautiful.
And you know,
for you I bleed myself.
For you I bleed myself dry.
It's true.
Look how they shine for you.
Look how they shine for you.
Look at the stars.
Look how they shine for you
and all the things that you do.
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Winter Light --Sarah Brightman--
Hearts call
Hearts fall
Swallowed in the rain
Who knows
Life grows
Hollow and so vain
Wandering in the winter light
The wicked and the sane
Bear witness to salvation
And life starts over again
Now the clear sky is all around you
Aah aah
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night
Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
Till you love me too
Ah ah ah
Now the clear sky is all around you
Aah aah
Love's shadow will surround you
All through the night
Star glowing in the twilight
Tell me true
Hope whispers and I will follow
Till you love me too
Ah ah ah
Knock Loud --Sook-Yin Lee--
Knock loud, I'm home
Just sleeping to pass the time
Wondering if you'll come by to visit me
Ten years have passed
Since you walked out of my life
But late last night in the pharmacy
You were in the line in front of me
So I ran away to hide
"Knock loud, I'm home"
I wrote in black felt pen
Took that sign and taped it to the door
If you come in
To see how I have been
Make sure the door is closed behind you
Stand above me
Where light boys do plunge
Through my heart attack
Kills the worst of me
Said I was sorry
Drink to forget
I wake up alone
Knock loud, I'm home
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When I Was Cruel 1 --Elvis Costello--
Did you talk your way out of this?
Did someone flip your switch?
Now there is only right or wrong
Can you tell which is which?
But it was so much easier
When I was cruel
Why did you leave your happy home?
Why did you travel far abroad
So you could sleep with strangers?
You must have heard just how absurd
The words poured out of you, you fraud
I guess you don't know what day it is
So don't pretend you're innocent
Do I look like your fool?
I guess you have forgotten
When I was cruel
Oh, when I was cruel
Then I could make you so unhappy
Lonely cowards followed me like goons
And you liked it too
When I was cruel
(Oh, you know you did)
And if you should feel anything
A signal from within
Go back in your laboratory
And try to dial it in
And if you should feel anything
A signal from without
Abandon your dreams of vengeance
So don't protest your innocence
The truth is hard to judge
Perhaps you have forgotten when
I held a grudge
Oh, when I was cruel then I would make you very sorry
Lonely cowards followed me like goons
And you liked it too
When I was cruel
(Oh, you know you did)
When I was cruel
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The Space Between --The Dave Matthews Band--
You cannot quit me so quickly
There's no hope in you for me
No corner you could squeeze me
But I?ve got all the time for you love
The space between
The tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more
The space between
The wicked lies we tell to keep us safe from the pain
Will I hold you again
These fickle fuddled words confuse me
Like will it rain today
We waste the hours with talking, talking
These twisted games we?re playing
We?re strange allies
With warring hearts
What a wild eyed beast you be
The space between
The wicked lies we tell that hope to keep us safe from the pain
Look at us spinning out in the madness of a roller coaster
You know you went off like the devil in the church
In the middle of a crowded room
All we can do my love
Is hope we don?t take this ship down
The space between
Where you smile and hide
That?s where you?ll find me if I get to go
The space between
The bullets in our fire fight
Is where I?ll be hiding waiting for you
The rain that falls
Splashed in your heart
Ran like sadness down the window into your room
The space between
Our wicked lies is
The hope to keep safe from pain
Take my hand
Cause we?re walking out of here
Right out of here
Is all we need dear
The space between
What?s wrong and right
Is where you?ll find me hiding
Waiting for you
The space between
Your heart and mind
Is the space we?ll fill with time
The space between
The tears we cry is the laughter keeps us coming back for more
The space between
Our wicked lies where we hope to keep safe from pain
The space between
The space between
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