Alvin Steingold > Alvin's Quotes

“If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty...

the only thing we know definitely works
is giving women control over their own reproduction”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“God made them as stubble to our swords.”
― Oliver Cromwell

“One indictment of the religious right is not that it is heartless – a tautology in any case – but that is brainless.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

“...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
― Cassandra Clare

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
― Kiran Joshi