Lyra Parish > Lyra's Quotes

“Have you heard the saying, 'sex sells'? Well, I'm the supplier.”
― Lyra Parish, Weak for Him

“You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.”
― Lyra Parish, Weak for Him

“Love is kisses and touches and all the little things that make your body flood with emotions such as need, want, protectiveness, jealousy, hurt, and anger. It can take your breath away, or smother you at times, and make you feel like you can't go on. Your heart may race a thousand miles per minute, then slow down, and then race again, just with a simple look. Love is deadly and can kill you from the inside out if you let it. It makes you do stupid, ridiculous things, and say senseless sappy words, or listen to silly love songs, jazz, or dance in the streets, or laugh, or smile. Love is a weapon, or a drug, and can drive a person mad. I know what love is...”
― Lyra Parish, Weak for Him

“Focus on writing first.”
― Lyra Parish

“There is something magical about losing yourself in a world that doesn't exist.”
― Lyra Parish

“Aspire to inspire!”
― Lyra Parish

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Every woman is a rebel.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, Salomé

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
― Oscar Wilde

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.”
― Oscar Wilde