More from Marilyn Monroe
The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I defy gravity.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe They will only care when you’re gone.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Fear is stupid, so are regrets.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe
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From our community writers
When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas
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More on poetry
Good friends are like good poetry – hard to find and good for the soul.
Marine AshnalikyanMarine Ashnalikyan If only he would look at me. Look at me the way I look at poetry.
MoomerMoomer Whats so poetically beautiful about my world now, is that its finally mine.
MoomerMoomer Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
Ellie GouldingEllie Goulding There is something poetic about the way she floats when she walks now.
MoomerMoomer Don’t you think that poetry and music can help mend or heal our souls.
Frank ZFrank Z The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez
