Quotes about love

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“There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief… is the weight of a sleeping child.”

“Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.”

“Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”

“If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?”

“In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.”

“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

“I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.
Love, Dimitri”

“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into
are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing
for long years.
And for this reason, some old things are lovely
warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.”

“We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.”

“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”

“Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?”

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”

“Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.”

“She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.”

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

“Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul”

“Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.”

“When he thought of his history, what resonated with him now was not all that he had suffered but the divine love that he believed had intervened to save him.”

“I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.”

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

“Is love a fancy or a feeling…. or a Ferrars?”

“This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.”

“Where there is love, there is courage
Where there is courage, there is peace
Where there is peace, there is God
And when you have God, you have everything.”

“There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.”

“I love you, I'll never stop.”

“Love fades. Mine has.”

“They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.”

“Thank you… for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

“Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning.”

“You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.”

“There are boys so enraptured by love that they can't get their hearts to slow down enough to get some rest, and other boys so damaged by love that they can't stop picking at their pain.”

“I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.”

“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”

“Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.”

“Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

“Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance."
Percy: "Seriously?"
Frank: "And I love ice cream too…”

“If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?”

“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.”

“Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.”

“We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.”

“I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.”

“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”

“Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you… and remember, shoot for the moon.”

“It's not easy having a good marriage--but I don't want easy. Easy doesn't make you grow. Easy doesn't make you think. I thank God everyday that I am married to a man who makes me think. That's my definition of true love.”

“Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.”

“I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what waswith me. What I was lacking.”

“You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?”

“Love isn't a weakness.”

“Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….”

“I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.”

“Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated.”

“I filled my head with thoughts of the future, of infinite possibly. There's someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something….”

“If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”

“So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.”

“He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.”

“Children of the future Age
Reading this indignant page,
Know that in a former time
Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime.”

“Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.”

“Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.”

“Defining relationships over here? I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.”

“She supposed that all those years of loving a person who was dishonest had taught her a few things.”

“No one snaps our composure quite like someone we love.”

“You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try.”

“You fall in and out of love, but when you really love someone… it's forever.”

“I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.”

“A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”

“He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.”

“For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.”

“So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.”

“The love of every single one of my lives.”

“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.

If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.

If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.

If you want a partner in life take my hand.

I'm your man.”

“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”

“Our minds work alike, she thought. She had found her partner, her equal, the one to work and live and love with her. Her soulmate.”

“Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.”

“If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.”

“He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it […]”

“What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot."
The weird thing is, I think I am.”

“Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.”

“I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up.”

“Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?”

“Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?"
"Because she loves you," said Valentine.
Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.”

“It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.”

“I remember that my mother had once told me that the opposit of love isn't hate, it's indifference.”

“Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?”

“In the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too.”

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”

“It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.”

“For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.”

“…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.”

“Try to remember the moment when all the stupid innocent things you thought about life and love, all the things you thought mattered, all the things you though were true… try to remember when they all turned out to be lies. —Kyle”

“And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.”

“For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself”

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”

“Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.”

“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”

“Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator."
Stephanie Plum”

“Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.”