Quotes about love

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“But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"
Catherine: "I cannot tell."
Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.”

“I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.”

“Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.”

“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”

“Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.”

“Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.”

“Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.”

“We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

“You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.”

“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

“Love can make you do things that you never thought possible.”

“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”

“You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to… fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

“Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”

“Love is easily killed.”

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

“WE live in this world when we love it.”

“I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.”

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”

“Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.”

“Love, Love, Love. All you need is love. Love is all you need.”

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.”

“Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.”

“There's no such thing as love; only proof of love.”

“I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.”

“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead”

“Explaining that I'm faced with a choice between being with the love of my life, or saving four lives that were never meant to end.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”

“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”

“When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.”

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”

“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”

“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”

“Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.”

“Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.”

“We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said." Love is the only rational act.”

“Oh, for crap's sake, I can barely look at it," Aphrodite said, turning her head from the archway and averting her eyes. "And I usually love sparkly things.”

“Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.”

“The bottom line in both cases is that people don't change; that no matter how charming you are and how fiercely you love, you cannot turn a person into something she's not.”

“In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”

“There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember.”

“… clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”

“The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.”

“… you canʹt
always choose how you love a person. Love isnʹt logical or
fair. It just happens.”

“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”

“Love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

*Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.”

“I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.”

“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married…?" His voice tightened. "And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.”

“But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.”

“Love comes in at the eye.”

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

“What more could you want? How about dominion over this 'beautiful place'? Beauty doesn't last. Friends and family decay. Power is the only thing that goes on forever."
Jack answered with his gut. "No, love goes on forever.”

“I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it’s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I’m biased.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

“Why didn't he say goodbye?
I gave myself a bruise.
Why didn't he say 'I love you'?”

“No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever.”

“What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!”

“I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.”

“Even this late it happens:
the coming of love, the coming of light.”

“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.”

“When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.”

“My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.”

“I'm so afraid of losing something I love, that I refuse to love anything.”

“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.”

“We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far.”

“She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she was the product of her parents. What she was now was what she herself had decided to become.”

“What makes us want to know the worst? Is it that we tire of preferring to know the best? Does curiosity always hurdle self-interest? Or is it, more simply, that wanting to know the worst is love's favorite perversion.”

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

“Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?”

“Love is not love
Which alters when alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
Oh, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

“One beach-colored.
One brown.
One Loved.
One Loved a Little Less.”

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”

“When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.”

“A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

“Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.”

“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”

“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”

“Strength enough to build a home,
Time enough to hold a child,
Love enough to break a heart”

“[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.”

“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

“No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.”

“Goodbye -- Because I love you.”

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.”

“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”

“We are all fools in love”

“Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.”

“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”