Thomas Pynchon Quotes

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

True love wasn't found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul - as was wisdom and compassion

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

I look at you, and I see the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth. Inside and out you are beautiful. I know you better than anyone else could ever know you, because I can see into your thoughts and read your memories. The very light in you, our tremendous capacity for loving, humbles me.

What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Holding you, I held everything.

To my mind, there are no unattractive women; only those who haven't been awakened by love . . . A woman is often like a strip of film-obliterated, insignificant-until a man puts the light behind her.

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

There isn't anyone out there who isn't Seymour's Fat Lady.