A Lighthouse of Quotes

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

—Carl Sagan

I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of us
just like all of us;
sometimes I want to hug all
Mankind on earth
and say,
god damn all this that they’ve brought down
upon us,
we are brave and good
even though we are selfish
and kill each other and
kill ourselves,
we are the people
born to kill and die and weep in dark rooms
and love in dark rooms,
and wait, and
wait and wait and wait.
we are the people.
we are nothing
more.

—Charles Bukowski; “in this cage some songs are born” (via petrichour)

(Source: pigmenting, via lifeinpoetry)

I loved you at your darkest.

—As Cities Burn (2005)

The love we seek overrules human nature. It has a wildness in it and a glory that we want more than life itself. Love never counts the cost, to itself or others, and nothing is as cruel as love. There is no love that does not pierce the hands and feet.

—Jeanette Winterson

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

—Paulo Coelho

In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

—Siddharta Gautama 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth.
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures,
and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

—Francis Bacon

And still there haunted her a restless necessity to get a grip on love.

—Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D.H. Lawrence