Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

My whole life is a theater piece.

It’s not possible to stop love.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn’t that spectacular.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

A poem is a naked person… Some people say that I am a poet.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Bob Dylan is like an alien on this earth, and I love him! I cried when I saw him play live because I was so close to him.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

Mad or glad, Mr. Reagan is head over heels in love with Mrs. Reagan and can’t even imagine a world without her – He loves her.

Where thou art, that is home.

Change alone is unchanging.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.