Quotes about love

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“Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.”

“True love cannot die.”

“It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.”

“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…”

“There is always something new to learn about the person you love.”

“Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”

“I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought each other out, that bred a kind of love between them?”

“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”

“love is what moves the world, I've always thought… it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down… bring them low… and make them crawl…”

“Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.”

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”

“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”

“The most telling and profound way of describing the evolution of the universe would undoubtedly be to trace the evolution of love.”

“Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's”

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

“I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.”

“No ale for the girl, Birgit," Aidan said to the woman. "Do we not have milk?"

Regin's face heated. And all the worse, because she would dearly love some milk.”

“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

“People Die…
Beauty Fades…
Love Changes…
And You Will Always Be Alone”

“Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.”

“I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.”

“Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.”

“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”

“And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain”

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”

“I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.”

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.”

“In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.”

“Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.”

“All love is sweet, given or received…”

“Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”

“I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.”

“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

“That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.”

“Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless”

“Love … It’s a nice little trick if you can find it.

We had found it.

But now I knew finding love and holding on to it were not the same thing.”

“I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.”

“I love, therefore I am vulnerable.”

“A ruby-encrusted orb popped its top and helicopter blades unfolded. Leo was glad Buford the table wasn't here-he would've fallen in love.”

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

“That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.”

“Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.”

“I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.”

“It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone ever make love?”

“Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.”

“Only love can last.”

“And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it”

“I used to think the worst feeling in the world is losing someone you love. But I was wrong the worst feeling in the world is the moment that you realize you've lost yourself.”

“When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those
you love.”

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

“Black Stache had no love for the Queen, no love for women of any sort, except for his ma. He had a real soft spot for his ma, and was truly sorry for the time he’d marooned her.”

“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”

“Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.”

“I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.”

“And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond.

And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world.”

“But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.”

“Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.”

“No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.”

“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”

“Love and life belongs to great risk.”

“He looked at her. “We’re meant to be together…”
“And this is exactly what I mean.”
“Our love is written in the stars.”
“And there you go again.”
“I love you.”
“You bore me.”

“To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.”

“That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.”

“I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.”

“Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.”

“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?… Wear that dress.”

“At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?”

“But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what?”

“Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love”

“you're my first born child, and the person who first showed me the miracle of this love a mother has for her child.”

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”

“But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. This is rare and pure and perfect.”

“Time has no meaning,
Love will endure..”

“I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.”

“Doing what you love isn't a priviledge; it's an obligation.”

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

“What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.”

“You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift…. I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.”

“Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”

“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”

“I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.”

“Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.”

“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”

“Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.”

“Love sucks. Sometimes it feels good. Sometimes it's just another way to bleed.”

“I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it.”

“If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.”

“Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it.”

“He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.”

“My love is my soul's imagination…
how do I love you… imagine.”

“Without hope, love dies and parts of you wither.”

“Better to love and fear than feel nothing”

“I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.

You are a second away from saying it.


You have no idea how much I love you.”