"Love- what is love? A great and aching……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair"
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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More Aching Quotes
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one of 160 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
— Rudyard Kipling
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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
— George Washington
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Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get…
— Charlie Chaplin
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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you…
— Joseph Conrad
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Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
— Natalie Goldberg
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind,…
— Joseph Lyons
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The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can…
— John Tukey
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Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
— Thomas Gray
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
— Ruth Pitter
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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by…
— Ed Kashi
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While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning,…
— David Berlinski
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within…
— William Hazlitt
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