Quotes about love

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“love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly”

“We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.”

“It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?”

“Love what you do; Do what you love.”

“The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you, Clary, he can't.”

“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”

“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”

“We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”

“When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.”

“When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.”

“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (…) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.”

“Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.”

“It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.”

“Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it”

“I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love”

“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”

“I was in love again. I was in trouble”

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”

“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

“Stella:
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..
[she smiles to herself]
Blanche:
I guess that is what is meant by being in love..”

“All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.”

“Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.”

“Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.”

“When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.”

“I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.”

“I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.”

“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn”

“I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.”

“When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them”

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”

“You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.”

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.”

“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”

“Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.”

“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

“The creative mind plays with the object it loves.”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.”

“I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.”

“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

“There isn’t time--so brief is life--for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving--and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”

“But I had loved him. I loved him longer and truer than I had anyone in my whole life and I would probably never love anyone that way again. Which to be honest was almost a relief.”

“Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.”

“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”

“Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better”

“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”

“The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.”

“Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators… The land is one organism.”

“I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.”

“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

“I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old”

“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”

“For everything that's lovely is
but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.”

“You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen”

“I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”

“I adore the way he looks at me sometimes, as if love is a quantity he cannot measure scientifically, because it multiplies too quickly.”

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”

“I love him who seeks to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.”

“She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.”

“And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony.”

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

“Make love, not war.”

“Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.”

“Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.”

“Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.”

“Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}”

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

“What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth —
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?”

“It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

“How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”

“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

“Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”

“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”

“We can know what love is. It´s adults who have forgotten, so they cling to their poor substitute and yell at kids who dare to live with real love. Pure Love. Love without compromise or distraction.”

“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”

“Because love requires context.”

“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.”

“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality”

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend”

“Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love.”

“The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.”

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

“To begin with, let us take the following motto… Literature is Love. Now we can continue.”

“But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger”

“Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need.”

“I gave my cat a bath the other day… they love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that…”