emo quotes about love

Mother knows breast. ~Author Unknown


My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of the Mind," Moral Essays


The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~Norbet Platt


I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. ~James Thurber


People don't change. Only their costumes do. ~Gene Moore


"Recycling and speed limits are bullshit," Tyler said. "They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16


An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner


There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. ~Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady


Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. ~Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm, Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists, 1972


A bargain ain't a bargain unless it's something you need. ~Sidney Carroll, A Big Hand for the Little Lady


Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. ~Lionel Poilane


I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one. ~Marcus Porcius Cato


We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~Rudyard Kipling


Diplomacy: The art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock. ~Wynn Catlin


Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. ~Carl Sandburg, "Arithmetic"


The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier Bresson


Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be? ~Author Unknown