Leo Tolstoy Quotes

In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

I look him in the eye. "I will always love you.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right

"So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways." "How'd you mean it, then?" "I just...I don't always say what I feel." "Why not?" "Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. "Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean them as much as the other ones.

You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly than mislead you with a lie.

I love you," she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital.

If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

What I think I know about dating is that you can't take back something you say in a date. You can't lie, and you can't pretend to be someone you're not unless it's not going well and you never see them again. It never works if you try to make yourself seem like someone you're not, and you want to keep dating them. Be yourself. Don't embellish. It will always come back to get you.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

I would feel really dishonest writing a song that was really sassy, or really confident, because I'm not a supremely confident being. I think that's what people find interesting about what I do; it's very different lyrically.

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings went...different story.