#excess

Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we know we haven't loved enough. ↗

— Louise Carey

#love #souls #the-city-of-silk-and-steel #love

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me. ↗

— Thomas Kretschmann

#afraid #became #come #distance #excessive

We pay when old for the excesses of youth. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#excesses #old #pay #youth

I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it. And nothing is at a like goodness still. For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, Dies in his own too-much. That we would do, We should do when we would, for this “would” changes And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents. And then this “should” is like a spendthrift sigh That hurts by easing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#procrastination #change

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cant #excess #expression #language #moderation

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#excess #excessively #exhilarating #fun #long

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. ↗

— Sean Bean

#around #baggage #carry #character #day

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#imprudent #more #nothing #prudence #than

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

#appear #excess #fine #highest #his

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#beyond #blowing #called #come #excessively