Ronnie James Dio Quotes

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

I don't like flirting, and when I love someone, I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time. I mean, the first months are always great, but afterwards it becomes hard work. It's not as passionate and crazy.

Imagine if you put many, many years of your life into something and were passionate about it, and you spent every waking moment putting love into it and trying to make it better, and people didn't understand that. You'd want them to.

Football is not just a game, it means the world to me and I'm so thankful of what it has given to me and my family, so every opportunity I get, I want to give my all in return.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

Success demands sacrifices. I believe it's a small price to pay for the adulation and love one receives.

I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.

love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

When a man loves a woman, can't keep his mind on nothing else. He'd trade the world for the good thing he's found.

It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

If I'm in a relationship, I'll go to the ends of the earth. If I'm on the road and we have a conversation, and she says, "God, I really wish I was there with you right now," I'll hang up the phone, send a car, and have the plane ready.

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.

That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

I hope somebody falls in love with me - other than my fiancee. But that's what you want. As a player you want a team that really wants you; head coach, GM, owner, everybody that really wants you in their place and the players believe in you. I'm looking forward to making somebody fall in love with me.

Clearly, when you win everything, it's fun. That doesn't necessarily mean you love the game more.