Quotes about love

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“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.”

“Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love,” the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. “But I don’t think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.”

“Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.”

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”

“When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.”

“If self is a location, so is love:
Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points,
Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance,
Here and there and now and then, a stance.”

“You know, when it works, love is amazing. It's not overrated.”

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.”

“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.”

“Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”
“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.”

“Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it.”

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.”

“It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.”

“Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.”

“Range after range of mountains.
Year after year after year.
I am still in love.”

“Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily… Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.”

“Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.”

“History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

“The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity”

“Why do you even put up with me?'
'I'm not putting up with you,' he said, softly. 'I'm loving you.”

“I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.”

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”

“Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]”

“Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!”

“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.”

“Infatuation. First Love. Lust.
My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.”

“Everything I know, I know because of love.”

“… his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.”

“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”

“Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?”

“The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.”

“I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.”

“My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.”

“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”

“I love you."
Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella.”

“And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.”

“Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!”

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”

“Ah men,
why do you want
all this attention?
I can write poems for myself, make
love to a doorknob if absolutely
necessary. What do you have to offer me
I can't find otherwise
except humiliation? Which I no longer
need.”

“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”

“… there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.”

“We women aren't good at hints. We like solid declarations of love and forever.”

“Love and ever more love
is the only solution to every problem that comes up.”

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.”

“I know you love me. The question is, how much?”

“Why is it so hard to say no to him? Is this what it's like to be in love with somebody?”

“I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.”

“Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”

“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else”

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

“Peter loves to make promises. He has the best intentions of keeping them. It makes it worse, somehow, that he doesn’t know how to. He thinks he’s a nice boy, that’s the worst part.”

“Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.”

“I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.”

“I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle.

-Heath Champion”

“I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.”

“My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.”

“This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest… She was free, for love liberates.”

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”

“The paradox is that no love can prove so intense
as the love of two narcissists for each other.”

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

“I love you all, even those I don’t particularly like. That’s you, Beryl.”

“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”

“No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.”

“And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.”

“It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”

“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”

“If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.”

“But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.”

“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”

“You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”

“The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.”

“Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).”

“These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used up. That took a long time, he knew, because women seemed to have vast reservoirs of goodness in them”

“Love made her patient. It made her hopeful.”

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”

“Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.”

“And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”

“Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean,
we can't separate ourselves from one another.
We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.”

“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked
someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love, much less someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of not knowing who I’ll be with, or if I’ll be
with anyone.”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them.”

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”

“What made you fall in love with a prostitute?”
“I didn’t understand it myself at the time. But I’ve thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, I had to concentrate on conquering your soul.”

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”

“Love is a fault; so be it.”

“He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you.”

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving.”

“I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.”

“She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more”

“Oh no. I've just accidently paid a visit to the cakeshop of love. I haven't put back my Italian cakey, but I have accidentally picked up a Dave the Tart.”

“Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny”

“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

“Love and loyalty runs deeper than blood.”

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”