Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason..And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone,...
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Stephenie Meyer
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
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Blaise Pascal
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover,...
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William Shakespeare
Cassia.I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not...
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Ally Condie
More Quotes By Maurice Maeterlinck
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
For it is our most secret desire that governs and dominates all. If your eyes look for nothing but evil, you will always see evil triumphant; but if you have learned to let your glance rest on sincerity, simpleness, truth, you will ever discover, deep...
Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.
Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?
For what are in reality the things we call ‘Wisdom, ’ ‘Virtue, ’ ‘Heroism, ’ ‘sublime hours, ’ and ‘great moments of life, ’ but the moments when we have more or less issued forth from ourselves, and have been able to halt, be it...
