quotes about unrequited love

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker. ~From the movie Naked



We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. ~Kenneth Clark



We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free. ~Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949



I married beneath me - all women do. ~Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951



A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle



There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1878



Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world. ~Socrates



Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln



Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~Tom Stoppard



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. ~Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle



Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. ~Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown, 1926



Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. ~John Jay Chapman



In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. ~John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975



I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones. ~Author unknown, attributed to a 4-year-old named Lauren



Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. ~Theodor Billroth



When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. ~Ansel Adams