Quotes about love

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“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

“I don't want to be afraid anymore. I want to be brave. I want… life to start happening. I want to fall in love and want a boy to fall in love with me back -Lara Jean”

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”

“I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.”

“Love is divine only and difficult always.”

“If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.”

“For I have seen it and I have felt it and it is love, not death, that undoes us.”

“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers-lovely, but dead.”

“What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.”

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase— 'I love you.”

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”

“I knew that now—that love wasn’t something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.”

“When finally she finished and stood herself up, he put his arm around her, best-buddy style, and they walked on. There was no request for a kiss. Nothing like that. You can love Rudy for that, if you like.”

“He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.”

“Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.”

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”

“If you pluck out my heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.”

“Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love-well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it.”

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”

“… but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.”

“Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.”

“I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you…. Are you perchance free this evening?”

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

“O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.”

“To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.”

“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”

“When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’t
delay. You have to hurry.”

“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”

“And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.”

“What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?”

“Harry: The most beautiful words in the English language aren't "I love you" but "it's benign."”

“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”

“When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.”

“Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?”

“Who am I? I'm just a writer. I write things down. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.”

“My father, Zeus, did not love me. The demigods at Camp Half-Blood did not love me. Python and the Beast and his comrades at Triumvirate Holdings did not love me. It was almost enough to make me question my self-worth.

No, no. That was crazy talk.”

“There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.”

“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”

“The thing is- and I know this is going to sound strange-that I seem to love you sort of desperately”

“Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.'…'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.”

“It's simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.”

“always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives”

“And then there was Jeremiah. When I looked at Jeremiah, I saw past, present, and future. He didn’t just know the girl I used to be. He knew the right-now me, and he loved me anyway.”

“Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.”

“Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.”

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.”

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.”

“If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.”

“As soon as somebody falls in love, all the wits seem to dribble out of the bottom of his head.”

“I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl”

“I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up”

“If this was love, love had been overrated.”

“Be you wise and never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you--
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.”

“We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”

“I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.”

“Tell me you love me," I pleaded"
"Gideon's eyes met mine. "You know I do"
"Imagine if I i ever said the words to you. If you never heard them from me"
"His chest expanded on a deep breath. "Crossfire”

“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want”

“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”

“Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.”

“You can’t fool people into loving you.”

“Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?”

“They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.”

“A young woman in love always looks like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.”

“Rocking back and forth, she clutched the sword like it was the only thing she had ever loved, and let the blood spill down instead of tears.”

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.”

“Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.”

“It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.”

“Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“The real drug, I came to believe, was love.”

“She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause…. "That I do still love you.”

“Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.”

“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.”

“Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.”

“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
I like a pipe for a Christmas present,
or records — Bessie, bop, or Bach.
I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.”

“A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.”

“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that Love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”

“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”

“I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

“Touch has a memory. O say, love, say,
What can I do to kill it and be free?”

“Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.”

“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.”

“Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?”

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes… and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”

“His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered.

She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.”

“You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.”

“Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.”

“Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.”

“He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.”

“You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.”

“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love.”

“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.”

“He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

“Home is where you will always have a place, where you will always feel loved, and you will never be alone.”