Christopher Morley Quotes

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death.

Eugene O'Neil is always exploring our want to love but can't get it out there.

If I only had 24 hours to live, I'd most likely spend it letting people know I loved them, and trying to make things right with whoever things were wrong with. One thing about life, man, once you're gone, the only true impact you have is on the lives you affected positively, no matter how many hit songs or movies you had.

Dearest darling, how I love you. Words cannot tell how much I love you. So forget it.

When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.

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.

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

Ultimately, you're left with the people you love and who love you- everything else fades into oblivion.

I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)

One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Well one thing's for sure.. all you really need is love.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.