Quotes of Langston Hughes

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

- Langston Hughes

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“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ You are attracted to the love you didn't receive as a child ”

- Jodi Ann Quarrie

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. ”

- Helen Fisher

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo. ”

- Ruth Soukup

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ The desires of man are frequently more influential than their rational thought. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed. ”

- Richelle Mead

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ Battered was my heart in the deep search, branded with cracks like slices of silver birch. An ignorant dream, a wish, just fool's gold that was the tale that love had sold. ”

- Sara Secora