Once - Quotes
To women who please me only by their faces I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break - at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent - I am ever tender and true.
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I`ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
Man is always a prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
Time is free, but it`s priceless. You can`t own it, but you can use it. You can`t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you`ve lost it you can never get it back.
I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, "There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who`s in charge?"
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it - to be fed so much love I couldn`t take any more. Just once.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night.
Once people are broken in certain ways, they can`t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it`s already happened.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
You only live twice: Once when you`re born
And once when you look death in the face.
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.