Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

I'm really proud of 'The Gift.' There are stories we can all relate to - a first love that went wrong, a person who bullied us at school, a kind person we took for granted.

When we grow up, we tend to forget our first crush, first love, as we move along. Only when you see something on TV or hear someone say something do you go back to those moments.

First love is such a big thing growing up.

Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend.

You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it, it is by nature self-erasing, you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

The combination of experiences and emotions you have felt are never repeated.

The first time you do a thing is always exciting.

Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.