A.R. Von Quotes

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.

I will love you when you are a still day.I will love you when you are a hurricane.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing.

Beware the faces that bare the most smiles.For they are the ones who hide the most sadness—.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...

In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

I have this beast. He comes and goes at will.Silence.He's very powerful.Silence.He has control over me.Silence.I want to come and go at will.Silence.I want to be the powerful one.

He had no idea that he never went out of the house without her blessing going with him too, hovering, like a little echo of finished love, round that once dear head

Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.

I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

I now can say I no longer fear death. Instead welcome it with open arms…

I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

But there are times, " said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.

Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

If I live...I will live unafraid...I will live so all can see, I am not ashamed of who I am or what I'm designed to be!"-The Great Mephisto

Fate and character are different names for the same idea.

Just give me more, better memories to replace the bad ones. I’ll be back to normal before we know it.

I felt a pull toward her even before I actually spotted her in her car and I’m glad I didn’t resist.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

...don't act like I didn't for you.I did. Hard. And for a long time.So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.