Quotes about love

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“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.”

“To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

“I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.”

“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? […] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”

“One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a sense of proportion. What does anything matter compared to the reality of love and its span, so brief at best, maintained against such odds?”

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”

“Immerse your soul in love”

“It is impossible to love and be wise.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

“Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality”

“Eyes watching always
Shadows in shadows they wait
A black feather falls

First accepted, loved
Then betrayed-spit in the face
Vengeance sweet like dots.”

“… love is deep attention, deep compassion…”

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”

“True love stories never have endings.”

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.”

“Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.”

“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”

“Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together.”

“Love is the last light spoken.”

“I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.”

“Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.”

“To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.”

“You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.”

“I set off, off to kill the man I love.”

“Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.”

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”

“Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.”

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

“Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?”

“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”

“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”

“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”

“Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!”

“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”

“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”

“There's no love like the first.”

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's just a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, okay?”

“This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.”

“I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

“Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.”

“Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”

“Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.”

“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.”

“I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.”

“Love between a man and woman is war.”

“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”

“People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care.”

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.”

“Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”

“Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.”

“Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.”

“And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.”

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

“Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.”

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”

“7 x 7 + love = An amount Infinitely above: 7 x 7 - love.”

“Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?”

“Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realized that it could make you stupid.”

“Of all things love is the most potent.”

“There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.”

“Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!

But leave me a little love.”

“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

“I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked.

"Thank you, husband.”

“Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.”

“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”

“I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.”

“Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.”

“In love, one and one are one.”

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

“I knew it!" He pumps a fist into the air. "You've fallen in love with me. You want to have my babies. We'll get a team of horses and a covered wagon and we'll journey to South America and raise goats.”

“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”

“It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.”

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing… love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.”

“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”

“Love makes requests, not demands.”