Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Paul Charles Bourget

Paul Charles Bourget

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You call me your life, call me your soul; because the soul is immortal, and life is but a day.

John Cage

John Cage

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I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and this is poetry.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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The fall should not take away the glory of having climbed.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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Everything in love is sad, but, sad and all, it is the best thing that exists.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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My most faithful beloved was the hope that often deceives me and does not let me go.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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Loves that are not a hell of pains lack some love.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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I go to you as that river flows into the sea.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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The most legitimate and purest ambition to rise drags itself towards the heights.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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Come sleep with me: we won't make love, it will make us.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

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We don't let go of the dagger because we love the wound, the dagger commemorates memories that are killing us.

Alexandre Dumas (fils)

Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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The first love, out of curiosity; the second, out of spite; the third, out of habit.

José de Espronceda

José de Espronceda

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Why do you come back to my memory, sad memories of lost pleasure...?