Erich Segal famous quotes

04-14-2025

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
-- Erich Segal

#Love #Inspiring #Valentines Day
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
-- Erich Segal

#Genius #Brilliant #Madness
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
-- Erich Segal

#Love #Sad #Sorry
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
-- Erich Segal

#Love #Reason #Accepted
Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory
-- Erich Segal

#Victory #Able #Loser
Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
-- Erich Segal

#Cry #Please
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
-- Erich Segal

#Pain #Knowing #Not Knowing
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
-- Erich Segal

#Heroism #Quiet #Idealism
I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said. "Well," I replied, "it's certainly better than War Corps.
-- Erich Segal

#War #Thinking #Said
What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?" I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ. "Sonovabitch." "To his face?" she asked. "I never see his face." "He wears a mask?" "In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.
-- Erich Segal

#Stones #Way #Faces
He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.
-- Erich Segal

#Daughter #Father #Bullshit
And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.
-- Erich Segal

#Tragedy #Tears #Done
Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.
-- Erich Segal

#Sacred #Professors #Priests
There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
-- Erich Segal

#Fall #Thinking #Snow
The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.
-- Erich Segal

#Thinking #Decision #London
But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?â€ Jenny asked. â€œMake meâ€, I replied. â€œBeg pardon?â€ â€œMake meâ€, I repeated. Her eyes widened like saucers. â€œYou mean like incest?â€ she asked. â€œDonâ€™t give me your family problems, Jen. I have enough of my own.â€ â€œLike what, Oliver?â€ she asked, â€œlike just what is it he makes you do?â€ â€œThe â€˜right thingsâ€™â€, I said. â€œWhatâ€™s wrong with the â€˜right thingsâ€™?â€ she asked, delighting in the apparent paradox.
-- Erich Segal

#Mean #Eye #Giving
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.
-- Erich Segal

#Air #Different #Renaissance
Sometimes I amaze even myself.
-- Erich Segal

#Sometimes
It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.
-- Erich Segal

#Special #Helping #Forget
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
-- Erich Segal

#Mural
Sometimes I ask myself what would I be if Jenny were alive. And then I answer : I would also be alive." - Oliver.
-- Erich Segal

#Answers #Alive #Jenny
Jenny, if you're so conÂvinced I'm a loser, why did you bullÂdoze me into buyÂing you cofÂfee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.
-- Erich Segal

#Eye #Jenny #Bulls
We have turned doctors into gods and worship their deity by offering up our bodies and our souls - not to mention our worldly goods. And yet paradoxically, they are the most vulnerable of human beings. Their suicide rate is eight times the national average. Their percentage of drug addiction is one hundred times higher And because they are painfully aware that they cannot live up to our expectations, their anguish is unquantifiably intense. They have aptly been called 'wounded healers.' " ~ Barney Livingston, M.D. (Doctors, 1989)
-- Erich Segal

#Suicide #Doctors #Eight
Her handwriting was curious Â— small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).
-- Erich Segal

#Thinking #Handwriting #Letters
although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love.
-- Erich Segal

#Brain #Location #Rage
The â€˜equilibriumâ€™ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. Itâ€™s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.
-- Erich Segal

#People #Knack #Illusion
What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.
-- Erich Segal

#Beautiful #Girl #Years
Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love
-- Erich Segal

#May #Lost #Translations
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
-- Erich Segal

#Girl #Years #Twenties

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