Funny Anti Valentines Day Quotes by William Shakespeare, Laurell K. Hamilton, Thomas Merton, H. L. Mencken, Jo Coudert, Sarah Jessica Parker and many others.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it’s just another way to bleed.
To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise of love in our own souls.
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.
Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy and you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.
Happy Valentine’s Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you’re probably alone. Valentine’s Day is often times a, well, it’s a manufactured day that really doesn’t mean anything.
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self.
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
You’re not a coward just because you don’t want to hurt people.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Being single is pretty good. It’s a nice sense of irresponsibility.
