Quotes about love

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“Mr. Solomon was right the worst kind of torture is watching someone you love get hurt.”

“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

“You say you’re? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?”

“But I loved that house, and I hated to say good-bye. Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah.”

“You can never be wise unless you love reading.”

“I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.”

“Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate.”

“People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.”

“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”

“To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.”

“And where love ends, hate begins”

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

“Fang, fang. I love you. I looooove you. I love you thiiiiiiiiiis much!”

“Be of love(a little)
More careful
Than everything”

“Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.”

“How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.”

“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.”

“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.”

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could've died for love--
But for livin' I was born.”

“Friendship is really the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone.”

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

“We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.”

“I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.”

“I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.”

“There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of the one you did love. The first kind is worse. Nothing can compare to the loneliness of the soul in adolescence.”

“A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”

“There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?”

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

“I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?”

“What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.”

“We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.”

“Yeah, I loved her. I couldn't help it. She was my brother.”

“the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”

“I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.”

“I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does, after all, so love the world.”

“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”

“You don't analyze love. You accept it.”

“I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.”

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”

“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

“Love is wiser than wisdom.”

“I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.”

“Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well."
-Uncle Charles”

“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”

“We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.”

“He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.”

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”

“No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.”

“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

“Laws are meaningless, child. There is nothing more important than love. And no law higher.”

“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”

“I did it because I love you!" he half-shouted, and then, as if registering the shocked look her face, he said in a more subdued voice, "I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

“Many people don't allow themselves to love… because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.”

“That all things are possible to him who believes, that they are less difficult to him who hopes, they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues.”

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”

“And love … love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too.”

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

“Ghosts are memories, and we carry them because those we love do not leave the world”

“If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.”

“He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.”

“It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”

“I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”

“Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.”

“To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.”

“Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!” “So do I,” said Pooh.”

“… love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”

“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”

“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

“She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.”

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

“Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.”

“The sweetness of love is short-lived, but the pain endures.”

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

“Love betters what is best”

“Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.”

“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder… the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”

“Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.”

“I love you," I whisper.
"And I love you." He smiles, his lips seeking mine. "Always have. Always will.”

“You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.”

“In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.”

“My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.”

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”

“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”

“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

“… There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good, then surely God would not have allowed it such power.”

“Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.”

“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

“I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.”

“I love you Max,"Fang said…"God, Max I love you so much."
I know. I thought. I've always known”

“She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.”

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.”

“I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.”