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First we are tested on our strengths, then we our strengths are tested
— Marianne
Life turns to be colorless when people you trust the most ignore in times of sorrow.
— Srinivas Shenoy
We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.
— Ross Lockridge Jr., Raintree County
Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
— Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.
— William Shakespeare, Richard II
Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them because we ask ourselves: What about me? What does that say about my life, my pains, my anguish?
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Sorrow has rushed over the world like the waters of the Deluge, and it will take time to recede. But already, there are small islands of - hope? Happiness? Something like them, at any rate.
— Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind
— Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native
It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.
— Sophocles, The Oedipus Tyrannus
Christ is with you. Do not abandon Him and He will not abandon you. You will see great sorrow, and in that sorrow you will be happy. This is my last message to you: in sorrow seek happiness. Work, work unceasingly.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Six monthsIt been six months since you passed How long must these feelings of loss last ?It's been six months since you died,on the surface it appears I never really cried.  I hide away my tears, my sorrow, my fears.They say time heals all woundsWounds may heal, but scars remain.No one really sees the pain that hides behind my eyes. A heart of gold stopped beatingtwo twinkling eyes closed to restGod broke our hearts that day to prove he only took the best Never a day goes by that you’re not in our hearts, our minds and in our souls. We miss you dad.
— Michael Tianias
To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in others; to leave the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One day I have to wake up and realize that you are gone.
— Liv-Christine Hoem
The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I” gives birth to mind; Mind gives birth to ego,Ego gives birth to sense of separation,From where originates suffering and sorrow.
— Gian Kumar
Just know the night won’t last forever, and the daybreak is just around the corner. The rain only lasts so long, until it has to stop again. There won’t always be sorrow. Tomorrow is another day for daylight.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
— George MacDonald, Phantastes
To my lovely starling, Maybe there are magical words that will make you understand, but if so, I do not know them. Words are your domain. I've always been better with pictures. I fear you think I am a monster. It's true I've disrupted many graves. The way I see it, the dead are dead. If, after their death, we can learn things from the about the human form - things that will increase the sum of human knowledge and the possibilities of art - what harm is that? After death, new life, new beauty. How can that be wrong? My friends and I have made use of some of the bodies as models. some we sell to surgeons who study them with the hopes of learning something about the frail mechanisms of the human body. I don't know exactly what Dottor de Gradi does in his workshop on the Rialto, and I was as surprised as you were to stumble on it. He couldn't - he wouldn't tell me if your friend's body ended up there. But he did assure me all of his work is focused solely on extending human life. I won't lie. I did it for the money as well. Don Loredan is holding a private exhibition in his palazzo tomorrow. The entry fee was quite steep but two of my paintings were accepted. This could be the beginning for me. I could find my own patrons. I could be more than just a peasant. Tommaso's assistant.So yes; a little for money. But mostly I did for the art.I don't expect these words to change how you feel. I simply want you not to see me as a monster. I don't want to be a monster. Not anymore. Not after meeting you. I know that we disrupted you dear friend's body, and for that I am deeply regretful. But if we had not done so, if I had not lingered in the San Domenico churchyard after standing guard for my friends, you and I might never have met. Meeting you is one thing I will never regret. I hope you like the painting. Consider tit a wedding gift. How stupid of me to let my heart go. It was a lovely fantasy while it lasted, though, wasn't it?Yours, Falco
— Fiona Paul, Venom
Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn’t a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboatcomes slowly out and then goes back is truly worthall the years of sorrow that are to come.
— Jack Gilbert
She never answered. She couldn’t. All she could do was stare, reaching toward him with her gaze alone, pulling him to drown in the sorrow of those depthless black pools.
— Kelly Creagh, Nevermore
For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick, The Address Of Happiness
She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.
— Glen Cook
A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, ‘Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?’ And the sage answered him, ‘Precisely for that reason—because it does not avail.
— Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life
To acknowledge God is to fully accept the sorrow of the human condition.
— Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!
Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.
— Cecil Thounaojam
That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon’s wisdom yet.
— Herman Melville
The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord,That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrows that infest the SoulScatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
— Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat
Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary, our letters, all the things you got for our household. How proud we were of that! And the nearly six years! O God, I thank you for those years. If I never had met you, I would now not have all the sorrow; but I would have missed these riches -- and do these years not abundantly balance the lonely years I face without you?
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
Do whatever you do joyfully, because discipline - the true meaning of the word - is characterized by doing something with joy. Even the little things: see them as an opportunity, a blessing, a meditation, as spiritual practice. Then, even if it's difficult, it will be good. If you use hardships in a proper way, they can even bring peace
— Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's
Happiness is an illusion
— ShinigamiGew
The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
— Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman
You may have misery,” she continued, ignoring my plea, “you may lose hope in the sorrow of an unplanned life but as long as you have faith and trust in adoration, in affection, in love, that sorrow will turn to happiness. And that is a constant, dear.” She breathed deeply and steadily for a moment, seemingly catching her breath.“No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be.“And you will know honest happiness. Of that I am certain. Certain because it’s why you are here and also because here is your inevitability.
— Fisher Amelie, Vain
...and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.
— Iain Banks, A Song of Stone
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
— Zora Neale Hurston
In freedom you form in utter disgrace,the bars of my prison this night.While you drift on currents of seraphim heights,it is I who deserve to take flight.
— Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness
Drink my friends. You can never drink too much alcohol when you have drunk too much sorrow.” - Peter Kotara.
— Ray Anyasi, Ujasiri
He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.
— James Carlos Blake, Country of the Bad Wolfes
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.
— Edward Said, Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
There is a certain pleasure in weeping
— Ovid
She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.
— Leo Tolstoy
I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!
— William Shakespeare, Richard II
It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.
— Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Frailty, thy name is woman!—A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body,Like Niobe, all tears:—
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")
— Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.
— John Cantwell, Exit Wounds - One Australian's War On Terror
Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps and flats, and we wonder whether harmony will ever be restored. On other days we hear only an ominous, deep strain which seems to say that hope is fled. But why this chill despair? Symphonies are a blending of many tones, high and low, over and under, major and minor. One day cannot make a life a whole any more than shadows can make a picture or minor notes a symphony. We need to hear life's song, not as the discord of a single day, but as the completed harmony of all the years. Then will today's sorrow and tomorrow's disappointment ring forth in major key as glorious melody.
— W. Waldemar W. Argow
Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
— Alice Hoffman, Local Girls
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy
— Kahlil Gibran
She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.
— J.E.B. Spredemann, Amish by Accident
Wherefore is there ice and snow, chilling winds and bitter nights? Is it to mock the earth for its sunshine? No, not so! We forget that sunlight is impossible without shadows; that for every day there is a night; that for every joy there is a pain; that for every laugh there is a sob. Progress is never a straight line upward; always it is down and then around.
— W. Waldemar W. Argow
Where is an intimate  friend  who’ll hear the secret  from me straight out– of what human beings  have been  from the moment they began? They  are  born  of toil  and molded  from  the clay of sorrow.They wander the world for a time,  then  set  off.
— Omar Khayyám, Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.
— Jennifer Donnelly, The Tea Rose
And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come from the deepest and darkest recesses of the mind. These were not screams of pain. These were screams of years of sorrow and despair. These were screams that made your skin crawl. These were the worst screams I have ever heard. I cannot get them out of my head. Perhaps, they will be with me forever. I shouldn't be so lucky.
— Jamie Schoffman, Not All Out of Love
One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.
— Victor Hugo
Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Sorrow's a tall mountain you climb one inch at a time. You ain't supposed to do it quick
—  else you won't profit from the journey.
You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her heavily. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. She had told a secret and now had the sadness of wondering how much deeper she might dig in order to keep the first secret fed.
— Colum McCann, Dancer
There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.
— Harold Bell Wright
Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
— Voltaire
In life, you don’t have miracles, you don’t have anything but whatever you can hold on to.
— Nandanie Phalgoo
We're not dating," Alec said again."Oh?" Magnus said. "So you're just that friendly with everybody, is that it?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Hey, he's awesome. A little unstable, but awesome. We got along great." Adrian opened the door to the building we were seeking. "And he's a badass in his way too. I mean, any other guy who wore scarves like that? He'd be laughed out of this school. Not Abe. He'd beat someone almost as badly as you would. In fact..." Adrian's voice turned nervous. I gave him a surprised look."In fact what?""Well...Abe said he liked me. But he also made it clear what he'd do to me if I ever hurt you or did anything bad." Adrian grimaced. "In fact, he described what he'd do in very graphic detail. Then, just like that, he switched to some random, happy topic. I like the guy, but he's scary.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
He'd written me up a proposal of why dating him was a sound decision. It had included things like "I'll give up cigarettes unless I really, really need one" and "I'll unleash romantic surprises every week, such as: an impromptu picnic, roses, or a trip to Paris—but not actually any of those things because now they're not surprises.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times.""Not really. I've made inapproprite suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date. And, if memory serves, you did say you'd give me a fair chance once I let you clean out my trust fund.""I didn't clean it out," I scoffed.
— Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.
— Greg Behrendt
There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.
— Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye
The formula I've figured out: Stop being so damn picky and let go of the mental image of an ideal; talk to more strangers, because it builds confidence and helps you feel more connected; be open to every opportunity, and when you do meet someone you like, keep dating around. And there's the mother of all lessons-the one I'm still working on: follow your instincts and even if you're wrong about him (or her), you'll know better for the next time.
— Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as close to a stuffed animal as you're ever going to get from a Spartan like Logan Quinn.
— Jennifer Estep, Touch of Frost
This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
— Diana Peterfreund, Rampant
A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
— Myles Munroe, Waiting and Dating
Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.
— Greg Behrendt
I listen to the things people want out of love these days and they blow my mind. I go to the pub with the boys from the squad and listen while they explain, with minute precision, exactly what shape a woman should be, what bits she should shave how, what acts she should perform on which date and what she should always or never do or say or want; I eavesdrop on women in cafes while they reel off lists of which jobs a man is allowed, which cars, which labels, which flowers and restaurants and gemstones get the stamp of approval, and I want to shout, Are you people out of your tiny minds?
— Tana French, Faithful Place
Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.
— Amelia Gray, AM/PM
Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod.
— Inez Kelley, Sweet as Sin
At that moment, I hated dating more than doing my laundry
— Meredith Schorr, Just Friends With Benefits
You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway.
— Nenia Campbell, Fearscape
Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.
— Sharon Stone
A guy should make the woman he is dating feel different and more special than anyone else in his life
— Samantha Daniels
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
— Aimee Bender
I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.
— Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls.
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.
— Cody Simpson
It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.
— Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life
When you love someone's everything with your everything then you truly are in love.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Success In Love
This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
— Elizabeth Berg, Joy School
Basch: So why don't you ask her out?The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no.-So what? What have you got to lose?-The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.
— Samuel Shem, The House of God
I’d rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date.
— Stephanie McAfee, Down and Out in Bugtussle: The Mad Fat Road to Happiness
The world always said to just be yourself, but it turned out when Evelyn was herself, no guys were at all interested, so she was left with games of make-believe, expressing enthusiasm for whatever the men wanted to do, be it rock climbing or going to a cheese-beer pairing or a Knicks game.
— Stephanie Clifford, Everybody Rise
We've decided that your birthday present will be a car", said Marion.Danny was touched. "But the thing I can't figure out is, why would I need a new car?""You can't very well gate a girl to the movies, Danny," Leslie replied."I think you're overlooking the biggest point here," said Danny. "I don't need a CAR so I can date. I need a GIRL.
— Orson Scott Card, The Lost Gate
If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.
— Erik Von Markovik
When I was younger I was attracted to gay guys and they were "attracted" to me. I don't exactly know why...But it turned out the gay guys were the ones holding all the cards, both physically and emotionally, and I've certainly paid the price for making that mistake. And so have all of the guys I've dated since.
— Hilary Winston
My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money
— Erik Von Markovik
Don't talk. Kill it."That might be the sweetest thing a woman's ever said to me on a first date.
— Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead
I wish Goodreads was also a dating site.
— Laine
Dating is no charge prostitution.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Elizabeth: "Maybe he'll surprise you."Meghann: "Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.
— Kristin Hannah, Distant Shores
And the third is from him: "Second date?"I immediately text him back: "Hell yeah!"Then I collapse on my bed and enjoy that "butterflies in the stomach" feeling. I've felt the butterflies before from time to time, but this is the first time I haven't sort of wanted to attack them with a flyswatter.
— Adam Selzer, I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It
...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.
— Mike Birbiglia
Anybody who predicts the death of cities has already met his spouse.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Charity groped for the phone, coming up with it at last and croaking "hello" in a voice that sounded exactly like a bullfrog's mating call. Which made a kind of twisted sense -- last night she'd been hunting for a mate as well.
— Elizabeth Jane Howard, Mr. Wrong
When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating.
— John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
When I date, I date a lot. I give most people a chance but let very few into my heart. Think of it like trying on clothes before you buy them. It takes out the guesswork. Why commit before you’re ready? And ideally you end up having to make fewer returns. Of course there are those awkward moments when you’re standing in unfamiliar light in front of a questionably shaped mirror squinting at your torso and thinking to yourself “Do I have a bra somewhere that’ll make this thing work? Could I get one?
— Page  Turner, Poly Land: My Brutally Honest Adventures in Polyamory
Had I got a dating profile, it would be like this:Looks- 6/10: I knowHumor-9/10- you’ll knowI don’t know about my sarcasm score because they haven’t come back to me just to rate me after I have rattled them.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded
Theo and Sugar dated, just like normal people only slower.He bought her heart-shaped boxes of candy and living plants for her rooftop and sent her cards, one every day by U.S. mail, each with a handwritten message.'Can't wait to see you tonight,' the first one said.'I love your laugh,' read the second.'Sorry for spilling ketchup on your dress,' came the third.She made him pork chops with honey mustard sauce and her favorite date-and-honey nut loaf and a fetching gingham jacket for Princess, who ate it the moment they turned their back on him.
— Sarah-Kate Lynch, The Wedding Bees: A Novel of Honey, Love, and Manners
As they call last orders, he’ll walk over to a girl he’s no doubt slept with before, pour half his pint over his own head and the remainder over hers, and with a twinkle in his eye say, “Looks like you’ve pulled again, doesn’t it?
— Karl Wiggins, GRIT The Banter and Brutality of the Late-Night Cab
In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.
— S.E. Harmon, Stay with Me
I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me.
— Kara Lee Corthron, The Truth of Right Now
The biggest turn off for a girl as far as I am aware apart from all logistic issues, is a guy without any mission in his life.
— Hemant Pandey, Secrets to modern woman's heart: Learn what women really want : Be ready to be shocked! (3rd Edition)
World gives everything to those who don’t need it. (Matthew Effect). More you have it, more they give it to you
— Hemant Pandey, Secrets to modern woman's heart: Learn what women really want : Be ready to be shocked! (3rd Edition)
Confidence is indeed sexy, sexier than those six packs or six figures.
— Hemant Pandey, Secrets to modern woman's heart: Learn what women really want : Be ready to be shocked! (3rd Edition)
If you are not appetisers, main course and dessert, you are dating the wrong diner...
— Virginia Alison
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Dating and hiring have a lot in common.
— Scott Wintrip, High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant
What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings and made me feel like something was wrong with me.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.
— Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?
Do you have one where you’re riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.—SINGLE-MINDED
— Lisa Daily, Single-Minded
It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of "dating," an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.
— Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist
She doesn’t shake hands.” Saul smiled at the reverend and shrugged. She had other odd behaviors. Saul never viewed her idiosyncrasies as a problem. Rather, he enjoyed her ongoing revelations. She was a piñata of surprises every time they went out. –Michael Benzehabe, from the novel Unassimilated
— Michael Benzehabe
A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.
— Larry David
Don't you think it's weird how dating profiles emphasize listings of your favorite TV shows, movies, and books? It's as if you are supposed to define yourself by how you distract yourself. It's like impersonating a person--this is what I do instead of engaging with other people.
— Maggie Wells, Luciana
He says they're not his type, but I don't really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
Healthy relationships, even those that eventually end with breakups, aren’t a mistake. They’re a chance to grow and learn, about who you are, who you want to be, what kind of relationships are worth your time and energy. I hate this assumption that when people end a romantic relationship they leave a piece of their heart behind, they shatter and will be unable to offer their next partner their whole, pure self. People aren’t puzzles or vases. People have an endless capacity both to learn and to love. People also aren’t property. They do not become less valuable or tarnished by use.
— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
The way you’re smiling a little makes me think maybe you wouldn’t mind an older man.
— Jessica Hawkins, Night Fever
Dating becomes a cutthroat game of musical chairs with everyone scrambling for available partners to avoid standing alone at 30 when the music stops.
— Robyn Louis, Songs About Boys: The romantic musings and misadventures of my 20s
It wasn't like there was a dating and mating website for bear shifters. If there had been, its mascot would have been that yellow Care Bear with the heart on its stomach.
— Lila Felix, Burden
I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk
— Sylvia Plath, Letters Home
Join the Revolution! Be your own Brand of Sexy!
— Susan L. Edelman, Be Your Own Brand of Sexy: A New Sexual Revolution for Women
You are mine my precious.
— Eyden I., Woman's Book: Only For Men
I have a theoryd that the first person you fall for creates a model for how you approach relationships going forward. Like, it frames how you'll look at every person who you date after that.
— Leila Sales, Past Perfect
If you’re going to be a dickhead, at least have the courtesy of doing it while I have a drink in my hand so I can throw it in your face!
— Nicki Elson, When It Hooks You
Hormones, it seemed, we're making a much-delayed appearance in her life.Liv was horrified.
— Danika Stone, All the Feels
Dating' stressful. I'd have to dress up.
— Danika Stone, All the Feels
Paeng leans back and rests his hand flat on the table. “Vince.”Blushing, he snaps at his friend. “I dropped the bra on the wet tarp and I guess I must have accidentally gotten paint on it and touched it to my cheek, okay?”Paeng is silent as Vince sighs. “I didn’t mean to take my upset out on you, sorry.”“No big. So, you fondled it. Was it good for you?” Paeng’s eyes glitter, making Vince’s anxiety flare.“I couldn’t help myself! The girl’s smoking hot and yet she doesn’t appear to own trashy underwear.” He feels all dreamy just thinking about it. “It’s simple and soft . . . it felt so nice. She’s not like any of the girls I’ve met before. She’s direct, feisty and artistic and I bet she’s really smart. She’s nothing like the usual MOM Girl and she’s not even my type. But her underwear is beautiful. She doesn’t wear slutty underwear because she doesn’t put on airs, and oh, God, that’s so attractive. What I wouldn’t give to see—”Paeng face palms Vince. “Dude. You are waxing poetic about cotton underwear like my sisters wear when they get their periods. It’s just underwear. It is not the key to Dani’s psyche. You are making the kind of assumptions about her that lead to expensive rings, one point two kids, and minivans. You are in trouble.
— Jess Molly Brown, Moms on Missions
Sexual power encompasses the power of seduction and the power of pursuit.
— Elona Washington, From Ivy League To Stripper Life: 10 Lessons Learned
I used to think I was in love with Mia because she was in love with me. Now when I watch her strutting down the runway, twisting and flouncing the way her mother trained her, I know she's just a human coat hanger. A wired body I hold late at night and try to fit into.
— Laurie Perez, Torpor: Though the Heart Is Warm
In my dating career, I had found that mothers seemed to like me; fathers did not. Period. So I tended to avoid contact with the dads. I assumed that this wasn't personal. Rather, it was simply the fact that I was a hormone-laden, male teenager with a fully functional penis, who happened to be in the presence of their daughters.
— Robin Yocum, Brilliant Death
It's SO much worse in high school! People talk about who's dating with such GRAVITY, like they're talking about wikileaks.
— Anna Breslaw, Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here
It's funny how they thought we were dating," Colin said, glancing over at her."How's that funny?" she asked, holding his gaze."Um," he said. Distracted from the road, Colin watched as she gave him the slightest version of her inimitable smile.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
I think you're something wonderful.
— N.R. Walker, Spencer Cohen, Book One
Describing our romantic longings in 'Life preserves,' therapist Harriet Lerner shares that most people want a partner 'who is mature and intelligent, loyal and trustworthy, loving and attentive, sensitive and open, kind and nurturant, competent and responsible.' No matter the intensity of this desire, she concludes: 'Few of us evaluate a prospective partner with the same objectivity and clarity that we might use to select a household appliance or a car.' To be capable of critically evaluating a partner we would need to be able to stand back and look critically at ourselves, at our needs, desires, and longings..... We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking then no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
He stops walking and grasps both of my hands to stop me. He narrows his eyes at me. "You’ve never been tickled? Ever?” His lips curl in a wickedly sexy smile. “You’re a tickle…virgin?”I nod and tilt my head down, looking demure. He makes it sound so erotic. I finally find my voice. “It wasn’t a virginity I ever focused on.
— Isabelle Joshua, The Swallow
He's got more red flags than Soviet Russia.
— Kresley Cole, The Player
It's like playing the lottery. It doesn't matter how extremely low the chances are of winning. You gotta be in it to win it. Hitting on every girl in sight is like buying a whole lot of lottery tickets. You never know, one day one of them might actually pay off.
— Oliver Markus, Why Men And Women Can't Be Friends
May I kiss you?”Finally. “Yes.”He smiled as he threaded his fingers through my hair. Carefully, he leaned forward and kissed my forehead.His mouth was warm and gentle against my skin, but it wasn’t enough. “Please tell me that wasn’t what you meant.”He laughed softly. “There’s more.” He kissed my cheek, my jaw, and hovered a fraction above my mouth.I ached for his kiss, and when the waiting stretched too long, I closed the distance.He took over, which was just as well, because I forgot where I was or the time or my name. The only thing in the world was his mouth. That kiss. Us.
— Elizabeth Langston, Wishing for You
Always wanted a girl with a heart-shaped ass. Most of my exes have ass-shaped hearts.
— Quentin R. Bufogle
Dating in England is different. First of all because English people don’t like at all other people knowing them, and second, because English people are romantically impaired.
— Angela Kiss, How to be an Alien in England: A Guide to the English
My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
— James Lee Schmidt, liQUID PROse QUOtes
Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.
— Daniel Marques
I attacked him, he healed me, then he took me hunting, I threatened him, and he took me home. Wow. That was like a date.
— Juliann Whicker, Hotblood
We weren’t old and lame and interested in companionship
—  that’s only functional at a certain age for child rearing or to make sure you don’t die alone. Dating was fucking.
What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.
— B.J. Novak, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
It wasn’t really acceptable to be single for more than a week, two tops, if you were cool in junior high.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
Bob leaned back and straightened his red paisley power tie. His smile was a bit lopsided and more than a bit suggestive. “In my experience, older women have very definite ideas about what they want—ideas that don’t include wheezing, potbellied, middle-aged guys with receding hairlines.” He chuckled and smoothed his flaxen tresses once more.She drummed her fingernails on the white tablecloth and looked for the waitress. That made six times so far this insolent pup had used the term “older women.”He gave her the once-over. “Nowadays, older women are so—”God help him if he says...“—well preserved.”Lina briefly closed her eyes. It was going to be a long evening.
— Pamela Burford, Too Darn Hot
You’re repulsive, Mike.”“Huh?”“I said, you’re impulsive. Such a fun, impulsive guy.” When Leah looked into her date’s little eyes, she couldn’t help picturing Mavis Fletcher’s prize sow Gertie in a two-thousand-dollar silk suit and a gold Tag Heuer watch.
— Pamela Burford, Snowed
I used to think that once we started going out, Derek would change. When I admitted that to Tori, she nearly laughed herself into an aneurysm and gave me a lecture on the stupidity of expecting to change a guy. Maybe I didn’t have her dating experience, but I knew you didn’t go out with someone because you thought you’d change him. That wasn’t what I’d meant. I liked Derek the way he was. I’d just hoped getting closer would mean landing on the sharp side of his tongue less often.
— Kelley Armstrong, Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions
His arm slid around my shoulders and drew me to him. It was odd, sitting there under the veil of darkness, watching the neighborhood settle down. Lamps burned in windows. TVs flickered. A few houses down, the rhythmic thud of a basketball on concrete and muffled laughter alerted us to the only other people outside on this glorious fall night.“This is a perfect date,” I said.He tensed. “You’d call it a date?”“Sure. You wouldn’t?”He looked down at me, his eyes glittering in the faint light. “I thought American girls liked more formality in a date.”“More money is what you mean.” I smiled. “It’s a date. Don’t argue with me.”“I never do.
— Elizabeth Langston
The signs of sociopathy are usually there before we are abused
—  most of us just don’t know enough to recognize them
Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.
— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
The likelihood of meeting anyone who wouldn't make him feel even lonelier seemed increasingly remote. Life was a dwindling process now, not a building proposition. He couldn't imagine being with someone new, opening up, feeling appreciated and understood, without having to explain his dubious non sequiturs and increasingly arcane or redundant frame of reference.
— Peter Nichols, The Rocks
I'm just glad you're all right. And if you want to date, I promise I won't gut the little... Male."She laughed at that. " I can wait until you're ready. I don't want you in jail for it."Fain smiled. "Very well I'm told ninety is a prime dating age for a human female.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Betrayal
Your girlfriend's sibling or parents might be totally nuts, but always defend them. Always. All a girl wants to do is to get along with her family and if you are on the side of making it easy, you will be loved eternally. It might be easier to condemn them - especially if she's doing that already - but, remarkably, even if they are murderers, she will find the good in them, especially if you start trashing them.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there.
— Vann Chow, Shanghai Nobody
... all decisions and actions that will affect your relationship must be made by answering this single question: Will the action I am considering have a negative impact on my relationship? If the answer is yes, don't do it.
— Chris Prentiss, The Laws of Love: Creating the Relationship of Your Dreams
You can do it now. You can't say you've never dated, because you have. A lot of people, actually.” Xander's gave her a mischievous grin. “You've leveled up, dearest. You're an expert on dating compared to Liv of six months ago.
— Danika Stone, All the Feels
Once you know what you want, narrow the options, make your choices, and go for it. But until you do, embrace not knowing.
— Jen Doll
Spend Night with Lonely Married Women is pleasure Moments of the life.Life for Fun, not waste it.Being Human and do social responsibilities
— Lolly
an unintentionally hilarious 84 percent of users answer this match question…Would you consider dating someone who has a vocalized a strong negative bias toward a certain race of people? In the absolute negative (choosing “No” over “Yes” and “It Depends”. In light of the previous data, that means 84 percent of people on OKCupid would not consider dating someone on OKCupid.
— Christian Rudder
i always like to touch base with men who i can relate to.
— S.R. Cherry
If you were in a bar, would you ever go up to a guy or girl and repeat the word "hey" without getting a response? Would you ever go up to a woman you met two minutes ago and beg her to show you one of your boobs? And do you really want to bone someone who responds to this?
— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance
In recent years behavioral scientists have shed some light on why these waiting techniques can be powerful. Let’s first look at the notion that texting back right away makes you less appealing. Psychologists have conducted hundreds of studies in which they reward lab animals in different ways under different conditions. One of the most intriguing findings is that “reward uncertainty”—in which, for instance, animals cannot predict whether pushing a lever will get them food—can dramatically increase their interest in getting a reward, while also enhancing their dopamine levels so that they basically feel coked up.If a text back from someone is considered a “reward,” consider the fact that lab animals who get rewarded for pushing a lever every time will eventually slow down because they know that the next time they want a reward, it will be waiting for them. So basically, if you are the guy or girl who texts back immediately, you are taken for granted and ultimately lower your value as a reward. As a result, the person doesn’t feel as much of an urge to text you or, in the case of the lab animal, push the lever.
— Aziz Ansari
There is no such thing as perfect. But even if there was, I would pick you over perfection any day.
— Jacqueline E. Smith, After Death
When we ask someone out, and are unsure whether we will hear them say yes, we are taking a leap of faith mixed with doubt. When we believe our spouse that they did not cheat, it is a leap of faith. We doubt in the absence of evidence, or when our trust in ourselves, and others are disrupted in some ways.
— Leviak B. Kelly, The Leprechaun Delusion
Let her know that her look really works for you.
— Auliq Ice
By the end of the date, your intentions should be clear.
— Auliq Ice
Maybe next time, don't bite the girl you fancy.
— Radhika Sanghani, Not That Easy