Quotes about love

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“Love is the force that leaves you colorless”

“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

“God will judge us not according to how much we endured, but how much we could love”

“I love you. I worry about you. I wonder whether I tell you enough how I love you and want you and need you and how I am diminished… when you are not with me and how I am multiplied when you are here.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“you have to love something before you can hate it.”

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”

“You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.”

“As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.”

“A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.”

“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”

“If your body goes in search of a relationship, we call this sexuality. If your mind goes in search of relationships, we call this companionship. If your emotion goes in search of relationships, we call this love. If your energies go in search of relationship, we call this yoga.”

“I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love”

“I don't know how to talk.
Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.”

“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”

“I have been loved, Edward told the stars. So? said the stars. What difference does that make when you are all alone now?”

“No matter what else, we have love. Always love.”

“The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love.”

“I hope you never love anything as much as I love you.”

“You never lose by loving, you lose by holding back.”

“When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.”

“You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, I banish you;
And here remain with your uncertainty!”

“‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it”

“The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.”

“Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding”

“How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?”

“We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.”

“I wouldn't know what to do with [colour]. Colour to me is too real. It's limiting. It doesn't allow too much of a dream. The more you throw black into a colour, the more dreamy it gets… Black has depth. It's like a little egress; you can go into it, and because it keeps on continuing to be dark, the mind kicks in, and a lot of things that are going on in there become manifest. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

“There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another.”

“You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

“sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it”

“Alcohol is like love," he said. "The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.”

“Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.”

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”

“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“I love you, Jonathan," she whispered.
A long arm snaked around her, and he pulled her against his side.
"I know," he said. "I just wanted to be sure you knew it, too.”

“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.”

“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”

“There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.”

“But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.”

“I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.”

“Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.”

“Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.”

“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”

“I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me”

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

“It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!”

“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way… God can give us the perfect way.”

“We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually”

“Give into love or live in fear”

“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”

“They do not love, that do not show their love.”

“I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.”

“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?”

“How peaceful life would be without Love, Adso. How Safe. How Tranquil. And how Dull.”

“Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience…. Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.”

“What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?'

Be yourself,' said Ipek.”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.”

“Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved”

“A life of short duration… could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”

“I'd sacrificed true love and a popped cherry to the god of deception and hormones." - Zoey Redbird (Ch 24)”

“Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?”

“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”

“Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.”

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“I am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.”

“Hatred is so much closer to love than indifference.”

“I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.”

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.”

“Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.”

“Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.”

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

“I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.”

“If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.
(Malcolm Kavanaugh)”

“I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.”

“There is the heat of Love,
the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper,
irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”

“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.”

“Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it"
George Cooper”

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

“And because I love this life
I know I shall love death as well.
The child cries out when
From the right breast the mother
Takes it away, in the very next moment
To Find in the left one
Its consolation.”

“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”

“The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

“A little love and attention can go a long way… too bad more people don't realize that.”

“I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.”

“Love has nothing to do with someone else. It is all about you. It is a way of being. It essentially means you have brought sweetness into your emotion. If a loved one travels to another country, would you still be able to love them? You would. If a loved one passed away, would you still be able to love them? You would. Even if a loved one is not physically with you anymore, you are still capable of being loving. So, what is love then? It is just your own quality. You are only using the other person as a key to open up what is already within you.”

“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”

“You have to feel love to harness its power!”

“The love of money is the root of all evil."

The lack of money is the root of all evil.”