Quotes about love

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“Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast. The mind too, but it doesn't talk about love.”

“This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.”

“… it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing…”

“Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.”

“The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.”

“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.”

“Love is a word we use for the desire to fornicate so that we seem more refined than farm animals." ~Lucian Balfour”

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.”

“love means breaking all the rules”

“… when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.”

“But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.”

“Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear”

“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”

“He looked like the love thoughts of women.”

“All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI—at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most boyish smile!”

“I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.”

“What do any of us really know about love?”

“To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.”

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

“Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual.”

“Shh,” he whispered. “You asked me if I loved you. I do. I love you more than life itself. Nothing matters in this world but that you live. Can you do that for me? Can you live?”

“Love dries up, I thought
as I walked back to the
bathroom, even faster
than sperm.”

“Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.”

“I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.”

“Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style.”

“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”

“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”

“I loved this woman the way you love… well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.”

“In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.”

“Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.”

“I love a tree more than a man.”

“Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.”

“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two… But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”

“We love because it's the only true adventure.”

“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”

“where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?”

“Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.”

“You don't just decide to have sex because you feel like having sex. You decide to have sex once you realize you're in love with someone and want to express that love physically.”

“How swiftly you dismiss our love…”

“To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.”

“That sounds terrific. Just you, your comatose wife, your shell-shocked son, and you daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.”

“The damaged loves the damaged.”

“Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.”

“As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.”

“The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.”

“She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind of dream that you remember when you wake up smiling.”

“Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.”

“He knew what it was like to love one who did not--or could not--love you back. But he'd had no choice. None of them did.”

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

“It's not that I like you least […] it's that I feared you most. The reginita taught me to like you. There was a strange joy to her that lifted my spirits. But you, Quintana of Charyn, you made me love you.”

“Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.”

“That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.”

“Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.”

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.”

“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”

“Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.”

“The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.”

“You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming.”

“Sydney Katherine Sage,” he said, his green eyes full of love and earnestness. “Would you do a brooding, deadbeat Moroi the honor of being his wife?”

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”

“He will love only once - but it will be for always.”

“I love Nancy Drew!”

“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”

“Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.”

“If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.”

“No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?”

“Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?”

“I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.”

“Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.”

“What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.”

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”

“Just an ordinary in a world that loves the extra ordinary.”

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”

“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”

“Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.”

“If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?”

“Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.”

“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”

“Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.”

“This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.”

“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

“I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.”

“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?”

“With his fantastic mane of multicoloured hair, Phury should have been in Hollywood's league with the ladies, but he'd stuck with his vow of celibacy. There was room for one and only one love in his life, and it had been slowly killing him for years.”

“If we cover and obliterate man’s faults and consider the beauty and dignity of God’s image in him, then we shall be induced to love and embrace him (Heb 12:16; Gal 6:10; Isa 58:7; Matt 5:44; Luke 17:3-4)”

“Because that's what heaven is… it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.”

“There’s nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on them, especially when you hate their goddamn guts”

“I dearly love the state of Texas, but I consider that a harmless perversion on my part, and discuss it only with consenting adults.”

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

“Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?”

“You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.”

“Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.”

“I really do love my sister. Especially when she's nice.”

“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”

“You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

“It doesnt always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world.”

“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”