"Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the
most powerful because it alone can conquer that impregnable stronghold
that is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing
without consent." ---Frederick Buechner, "Wishful Thinking."

"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
  --George Downes, "My Best Friend's Wedding"

Chivalry is the art of being able to lie magnificently"
    --Jonathon Hecht

"What is essential is invisible to the eye. It's only with the heart  that one can see clearly."
--Gene Wilder in The Little Prince, 1974

"Masturbation:  The primary sexual activity of mankind.  In the 19th
century it was a disease, in the 20th it's a cure."
  --Thomas Szasz

"Watch out, these hippos could tear a man apart.'
'What about a woman?' '
Well, a woman can tear a man apart too...." --"Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

"What is here is not hereafter
Present mirth has present laughter
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure."
    --William Shakespeare, "Oh Mistress Mine"

"Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones; as the
wind douses a candle and kindles a fire."
 --Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucald

 "If I were to send you flowers, where would I address... wait. Let me rephrase that. If I were to let
you suck on my tongue, would you be grateful?"
 --Castor Troy, "Face/Off"
 
"Painted on the tapestry I see the way it has to be
Weaving through the laughter and the tears.
But love will be the tie that binds us to the times we leave behind us
memories will be our souverniers." --Michael W. Smith, "Pray for Me."

"Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what
it's like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that
there can never be peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy for
you, too." Frederick Beuchner, "Wishful Thinking"

"Thou wouldst be loved -- then let thy heart
From its present pathway part not!
Being everything which now thou art,
Be nothing which thou art not." --Edgar Allen Poe

"Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst." -- Frederick Beuchner, "Wishful
Thinking."

"...life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns." --Victor Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"

"And remember the truth that once was spoken,
To love another person is to see the face of God." --Les Miserables (Musical)

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves -- say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
 --Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

"Love is as contagious as a cold..it eats away your at your strength,
morale. If everything is imperfect in this world, love is perfect in its
imperfection." --Jons, "The Seventh Sign"

"The difference between love and lust is that lust never costs over two hundred dollars." --Johnny Carson

"All that man can say or do that can possibly concern mankind
is, in some shape or other , to tell the story of his love, and if he is
fortunate and keeps alive he will be forever in love. this alone is to
be alive to the extremities. It is such a pity that this divine creature
should ever suffer from cold feet. A still greater pity that the coldness
so often reaches to his heart." --Henry David Thoreau.

"Self-love or pride is a sin when, instead of leading you to share with others the
self that you love, it leads you to keep yourself in perpetual safe deposit.
You don't accrue any interest that way, but become less and less interesting
every day." --Frederick Beuchner, "Wishful Thinking"

"He who does not love remains in death." --The Bible, 1 John 3:14

"Without love I am nothing, nothing at all." --Tom Jones, "Without Love (I am nothing)"

"Remember, thou, O ship of Love,
Thou leavest a far waste of waters,
And the soft lashing of black waves
For long and in loneliness." --Stephen Crane, "I explain."

"Shades of romance will always grab an unexpecting heart." --Ryan Cunningham

"Todos saben querer, pero nadie saben amar." (Everyone knows how to 'puppy love', but nobody knows
how to commit.) --Unknown

"In a heart full of dust lives a creature called lust." --Bjork, "Isobel."

"You may conquer with the sword, but you are conquered by a kiss. "
-Daniel Heinsius

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo
lasts a great deal longer."
  --Oliver Wendell Holmes

"When I was a kid I threw spitballs at girls to show I liked them.  Now
I just grovel and beg for dates...frankly, the old way was more
satisfying."
    --"Dilbert"(Scott Adams)

"I need all the love I can get.  And I need all the love that I can't
get, too."
    --Sisters of Mercy, "More"

"Love is a many splintered thing."
 --Sisters of Mercy

"Leave me, o love which reachest but to dust;
And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust
Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings."
    --Sir Philip Sidney, "Leave Me, O Love"

"That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut
the f--- up for a minute, and comfortably share silence."
        --Uma Thurman to John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, 1994

"As morning hues of sunswept fire
Caress your passioned face,
Alone with thee, a pure desire
To worship untold grace.
My soul would cry in silent prayer
To an hour swept apart
Your essence warms the evening air
As I dance into your heart."
 --Aramis, "(Disney's) The Three Musketeers"
 
"Isn't it nice how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out?"
 --Ace, "Starship Troopers"

"And you, Tin Man, you desire a heart.  You do not know how fortunate you are not to have one...hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable."
 --The Wizard of Oz

"I ask for so little. Just love me, fear me, do as I say and I will be your slave."
 --Jareth, "Labyrinth"

"To be emotionally committed to someone is very difficult, but to be alone is impossible."
    ---Stephen Sondheim-

"Love must be learned and learned again and again; there is no end to
it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked."
-Katherine Ann Porter-

"The moon ain't romantic...it scares the hell outta me."
                              -Tom Waits

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
--Henry D. Thoreau, comp. Mouse
 
"Love was chained up in the hallway / I heard it scratching at the door
I tried to tell her about Marx and Engels, God and angels / I don't even
know what for"
    --The Sisters of Mercy, "Ribbons."

"Men speak conveniently of love when it serves their purpose."
 --Maid Marian, "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"

"I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love
someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them."
 --Macon, "The Accidental Tourist"

"O, the glory of standing with one's love, naked, as it were, on a
spinning marble, while the spheres run flaming through the universe!"
    --Mervyn Peake, "Gormenghast."

"Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm.  Children
will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone.  If possible you should
always sleep with someone you love.  You recharge your mutual batteries
free of charge."
    --Marlene Dietrich

"If might makes right, then love has no place in the world."
                         -Father Gabriel, "The Mission"

"To sacrifice something is to make it holy by giving it away for love."
    --Frederick Buechner, "Wishful Thinking"