Life Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image ““He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.”” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Love Love hurts Man and woman
“She wanted that lifetime. She would never leave him,and even better, he would never let her go.” — Michele Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Yet he was still shaken by fading echoes of his fear that she might flee. Losing her would be very . . . personal.” — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
“He wanted to shout, telling her to stop. He wanted to tell her that he could stay, that he wanted to stay, that if… — Nicolas Sparks Copy Share Image
“His body trembled against hers. She held on, afraid that if she let go he'd be gone forever.” — Gwenda Bond Copy Share Image
“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.” — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.” — Harriet Evans Copy Share Image
“He is afraid, as suddenly he knows that he was afraid all along, that if he felt her body so close to him he… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“It didn't matter if he stayed forever cursed. All that mattered was that he stayed, that he chose her instead of fear.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“Years later she finally realized what he’d been doing by making her wait so long. He’d given her a reason to leave him. A… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Walking away from him had been almost impossible. But she loved him too much to do otherwise. Because by simply existing, she was putting… — Katie Reus Copy Share Image
“What terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn't know what that said about himself.” — Sarah J. Mass Copy Share Image
“It was great spending the nights with him, but sometimes, she needed a little break from him and the her that she became around… — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Does what is praised becomes better? Does an emerald become worse if it isn't praised? And what a gold, ivory, a flower or a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image