Quotes about love

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“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but…"
His voice cracked a little, the first time Tessa had heard him sound unsure.
He cleared his throat. "I promise you, the right man won't care.”

“Love is spiritual. It's about self-sacrifice and commitment. And discipline. You cannot have true love without discipline and respect. When you lose the respect of your spouse, you've lost everything.”

“… the moron who thought love was forever.”

“Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.”

“Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul…”

“The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering
while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.”

“We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.”

“I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”

“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”

“Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.”

“A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”

“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

“I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.”

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

“Never seek to tell thy love
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind does move
Silently, invisibly.

I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart;
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—
Ah, she doth depart.

Soon as she was gone from me
A traveler came by
Silently, invisibly—
Oh, was no deny.”

“How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice,” Mr. Whittier tells her. “If you need to be loved.”

“It's just programming"
"No. It's because I love him”

“I am not the one who loves —
It's love that chooses me.
When hatred with his package comes,
You forbid delivery.”

“No amount of promises can guarantee love”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.”

“You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?"
"Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly cheaper for a while. Like… slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”

“It is better than going on loving someone who cannot love me back. Better wasting all that feelings"
-Tessa gray”

“He grinned at me so unexpectedly I forgot to flap for a second and dropped several feet."You looove me," he crooned smugly holding his arms out wide, he added,"You love me this much.”

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”

“Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.”

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

“Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.”

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”

“I love you. I will love you till the stars crumble, which is a less idle threat than is usual to lovers on parting.”

“I'll show them 'love is worthless,'" Silena Beauregard grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "I'll pulverize them!”

“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”

“See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.”

“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

“You Are The Milk To My Shake, forever and ever. Love, J”

“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

“Jace laughed, that soft rich sound Clary loved so much. "I'm warning you, that jacket is sexy. The Institute could go up in sexy, sexy flames.”

“After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.”

“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”

“I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.”

“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to bein all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”

“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

“I wish our love was right now.”

“I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code… You don't love someone because they're perfect… You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”

“Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.”

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”

“Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?'

Uh… you know. Pretty good.'

Have you said the L-Word yet?'

The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?'
Uh… No. The other L-Word.'

?'

Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't trying to trick you or anything.”

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link… He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

“Yes, I-- I think I love her. Is that nuts?”

“She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.”

“she told him.
"I love you, Kait. From the very beginning.”

“Vanity, not love, has been my folly.”

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.”

“She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.”

“He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.”

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable.”

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.”

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

“Or perhaps this hostility of yours is the pretense. Love does make liars out of your kind.”

“The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.”

“There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.”

“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”

“This is Ian. He's no' usually speechless. Or so well dressed."
-Conner
I shouldna wear my best clothes to meet an angel from heaven?"
-Ian
"You look very nice, I love your shirt."
-Marielle
"Thank you"
-Ian
"I have a shirt like that, too."
-Conner”

“Lost love is still love.”

“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”

“When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water”

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

“There’s a lesson in real-life stalking cases that young women can benefit from learning: persistence only proves persistence—it does not prove love. The fact that a romantic pursuer is relentless doesn’t mean you are special—it means he is troubled.”

“It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.”

“I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.”

“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

“On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.”

“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”

“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.”

“Love makes everything complicated.”

“They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.”

“You showed me what it was like to love. What the world could be like, if”

“I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable.”

“• Dan: I love you.
• Alice: Where?
• Dan: What?
• Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.”

“Sometimes friends do go from us-it will happen more and more as you grow up, Chugg. But if you really love your friends, they're never really gone. Somewhere they're watching over you and they're always there inside your heart.
-Martin”

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

“We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.”

“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

“Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite”

“All love stories are the same.”

“Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.”

“Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator… writing was the mirror to life.”

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

“It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.”

“It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best”

“I've always loved high style in low company.”

“She loved you in the morning because the day was new.”

“Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.”