Quotes about love

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“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”

“Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.”

“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family…”

“I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.”

“Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

“I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”

“There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.”

“He buried his face in my throat. “Love you.” Tears stung my eyes. He said the words so rarely. “Tell me again,” I begged, holding on to him. His mouth found mine. “I love you . . .”

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair.
You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

“I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.”

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His great command!”

“He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness.

Completely evil, and completely in love with her.”

“I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me”

“Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.”

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

“At the door, Audrey called, "Are you coming?"
"No, just breathing hard, love." He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, "Oh, my God!”

“She now knew that it was possible to love two people at once—because you could love them in different ways.”

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

“We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that.”

“It doesn’t matter. I love you. That’s it. That’s all. I hope to hell it’s enough.”

“The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.”

“If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”

“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”

“Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.”

“The instant he knew he loved her, she slipped down his body and out of his arms.”

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

“I was beginning to understand. My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things; that was why everything had to be perfect.”

“They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much”

“Love means never having to be apart”

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

“Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)”

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”

“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”

“Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.”

“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

“The power you have over someone who loves you is greater than any other power you'll ever have.”

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”

“You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.”

“Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making”

“Remember… life is short. Each moment you have is precious. Treasure every second. Don't spend them doing anything you don't love.”

“When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.”

“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”

“Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.”

“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”

“then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”

“It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had.”

“… the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.”

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

“Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.”

“I love you forever" didn't always need to be spoken to be understood.”

“The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.”

“That's what came from having romance in your soul. You believe in things like love at first sight and perfect presents.”

“What I cannot love, I overlook.”

“I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.”

“I love you,” he said fiercely. “ ’Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. You’ve always owned it. I didn’t give it to you. You took it from the very start.”

“Do you know what I love? Life. And romantic love is a distraction that makes staying alive more difficult. " [Sabine]”

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?”

“Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”

“It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.”

“This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.”

“Love will heal
What language fails to know”

“When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.”

“What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.”

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“I was a fool! Loving someone who doesn't love you is hell! Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can be happy with someone who doesn't love you.”

“Hades took off his helm. His complexion was even paler than usual. He had a bad case of helmet hair. He was sweating and nervous and blinking like he had something in his eyes. "I am Hades," he said in a squeaky voice. "I love you.”

“It's Annie and me they're all sitting around here like cardboard people judging; It's Annie and me. And what we did that they think is wrong, when you pare it all down, was fall in love.”

“To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.”

“Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.”

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”

“But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.”

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you.”

“Can you ever forgive me?
I already have.
How could you? I don't deserve it.
That's what makes it love.”

“I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach… I think I'm in love with you… Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.”

“They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.”

“Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.”

“If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.”

“Rosie: Marrying someone you don't love is not right.”

“I love you. You are my heart beating
outside of my chest.”

“Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.”

“Hate is too big of burden to bear. I have decided to love.”

“Superstition, like true love, needs time to grow and reflect upon itself.”

“Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and bravest acts are done for love.”

“You can do this" I murmured. "You are my brother. I love you. All the embarrassing bits, all the annoying bits, which I imagine is most of you--a thousand Zias might run away from you if they knew the truth. But I won't. I'll still be here.”

“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

“Community is a sign that love is possible in a materialistic world where people so often either ignore or fight each other. It is a sign that we don't need a lot of money to be happy--in fact, the opposite.”

“That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.”

“Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex.”

“He suddenly recalled the famous myth from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars… Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“Sometimes humans hit on a moment of profundity more complete than their dim minds could comprehend, and they took that nugget of truth and dumped it in the refuse for the bards and the poets to find, and mangle into yodeling paeans of love.”

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

“People as old and powerful as he should never be given someone to love. For Anna he would destroy the world.”