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You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go. — Juan · 2016Drama (film)3 quotes
You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go. — Juan · 2016Fantasy2 quotes
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien · 1955As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Philosophical literature2 quotes
Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. — Theodor Adorno · 1951If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound. — Boethius · 523Psychological drama2 quotes
You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Psychological drama (film)2 quotes
You don't know about real loss 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. — Sean · 1997He pushes people away before they have a chance to leave him. It's a defense mechanism, alright, and for 20 years he's been alone because of that. — Sean · 1997Romantic comedy2 quotes
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me! — Joe (Some Like it Hot) · 1959Romantic comedy (film)2 quotes
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003I feel naked. I feel like everybody's staring at me! — Joe (Some Like it Hot) · 1959Children's literature1 quote
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. — A.A. Milne · 1928Christmas1 quote
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Christmas (film)1 quote
Let's get the shit kicked out of us by love! — Sam (Love Actually) · 2003Coming of age1 quote
Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go. — Juan · 2016Coming of age (film)1 quote
Let your head rest in my hand. Relax. I got you. I promise. I'm not going to let you go. Hey man, I got you. There you go. — Juan · 2016Coming of age story1 quote
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces,—and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper,—love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens · 1861Fantasy (film)1 quote
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Folk rock1 quote
She talks just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl. — Bob Dylan · 1966Musical1 quote
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Musical (film)1 quote
As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don't know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. — The Wizard of Oz · 1939Post-colonial literature1 quote
He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair. — Arundhati Roy · 1997Spy1 quote
We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean? — John le Carre · 1963Spy novel1 quote
We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean? — John le Carre · 1963Tragedy (play)1 quote
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at. — William Shakespeare · 1604Western1 quote
You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day. — Cherry Valance · 1948Western (film)1 quote
You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day. — Cherry Valance · 1948