Quotes about love

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“It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our passions in the marketplace of life's heartfelt transactions.”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”

“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”

“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love.”

“Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”

“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”

“There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.”

“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

“The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”

“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”

“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”

“Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”

“In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain; the second means love. That is a mother's love.”

“But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.”

“You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.”

“I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.”

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does”

“Words make love with one another.”

“What is art? (…) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life—love and sacrifice.”

“I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.”

“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”

“Fortune love you.”

“Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force.
Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”

“Future hipsters will love me ironically.”

“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”

“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”

“and love was lightning and remembrance”

“Another two-bowl morning?" - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class”

“Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give”

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

“Music is only love looking for words.”

“Everyone is in love with his own ideas”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.

The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!”

“There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.”

“You and your sister are very dear to each other. To show your regard, you give each other lovely bouquets of lies.”

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Music is love in search of a word.”

“I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

“Don't make love to your problems-- they'll never give you back the satisfaction you give them.”

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”

“My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.”

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”

“Love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep on watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.”

“When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.”

“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

“Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.”

“True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.”

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.”

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.”

“When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.”

“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”

“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?”

“I hate you."
I love you."
You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."
I'm trying not to be.”

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”

“That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.”

“I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.”

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

“When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?”

“Never forget that solitude is my lot… I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

(, May 11, 1910)”

“I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.”

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.”

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”

“Yes, if truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.”

“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

“Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.”

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

“Being in love, you know… it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out and get another to replace her.”

“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”

“Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like.”

“I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”

“But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“Some grief shows much of love,
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.”

“And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.”

“A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the
woman he loves”

“My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?"
"I don't mind at all" I said.
It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.”

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”