Loved Quotes
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Has he ever even said he loved you?"
"He's been telling me for years," she said softly, "I just wasn't listening
Connie Brockway
I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?
Emily Bronte
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
Francis Bacon
And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Ray Stannard Baker
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
Floyd Elliot Wray
For did my dreams come true when I looked at you. And maybe too, if you would believe, you too might be overjoyed, over loved, over me.
Stevie Wonder
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated.
Lao Tzu
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Ernest Hemingway
...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?
Victor Hugo
