Beloved Quotes

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The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my… — Ellen Schreiber
Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded.… — J M Coetzee
But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for… — Salman Rushdie
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there. — Jeanette Winterson
Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and… — Margaret Atwood
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point… — Jodi Picoult
Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart.… — Elwyn Brooks White
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.… — Rumi
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is… — Rajneesh
never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in… — Jane Austen
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to… — Isobelle Carmody
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same… — Salman Rushdie
Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind! — Dr. Seuss
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first… — Louisa May Alcott
Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything… — A. S. Byatt
No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. — Toni Morrison
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard).… — Edith Wharton
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… — Michael Chabon

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