Quotes about love

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“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”

“Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.”

“I'm in love," he said hoarsely. "With someone else. That's why."

Qhuinn (Lover Unleashed)”

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.”

“It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.”

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

“He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?”

“I love your name. I love the sound of it”

“Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.”

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”

“One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.”

“the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!”

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”

“Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.”

“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.”

“When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children”

“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”

“Just by gazing upon her face…
No matter how weary you are,
you will feel happy,
deep inside your heart,
you will feel a warmth
This is a "piece of joy"
This is all the happiness you need.
Normally, we call this "love"…”

“I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.”

“The fact is, you don't love me, and you haven't destroyed me. You don't have what it takes to do that.”

“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”

“You had to know someone very well to make them laugh like that. She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did not know him at all?”

“I know you worry about me needing you, but I shouldn't be with you because I need you. I should be with you because I love you.”

“women made the best beekeepers 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting.”

“If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.”

“Simon’s love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.”

“I loveI have loved ye from the moment I saw ye, I will love ye ’til time itself is done, and so long as you are by my side, I am well pleased wi’ the world.”

“Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”

“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

“She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon… and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.”

“Don't get pissy with me leech." With a glare, Carrow pressed her print to his torque. "Even tapped out, I can still do a love spell to make you fall in love--with the sun.”

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

“You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.”

“When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.”

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”

“What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe”

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”

“Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”

“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”

“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”

“Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”

“To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard’s workshop—is to love it.”

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

“Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.”

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

“Listen carefully, I’m going to say three words.”
“I love you?”

“How they loved each other, these three, how they had suffered for each another, and yet how much joy they clearly took from simply being in the same room.”

“Belief, hard work, love–you have those things, you can do anything.”

“Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.”

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”

“Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

“Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.”

“It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.”

“So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

“Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.”

“Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.”

“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures;
they give unconditional love.
For me they are the role model for being alive.”

“One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.”

“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”

“You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl”

“If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.”

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”

“Faith is a torment, did you know that? It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.”

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. I love you, Aliie, more than you can ever imagine. I always have, and I always will.”

“That is ridiculous," she said.
The king agreed. "Like falling in love with a landslide. Only you could fail to notice.”

“I know what they said even if they would not say it to my face. People love to talk. They love to slander you if you have any substance. They say I love nothing but money and the Presbyterian Church and that is why I never married.”

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”

“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”

“Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.”

“He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.”

“No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.”

“Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt… it's all part of being in love.”

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

“Cannibals need love too.”

“The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.”

“If there is God, I thought… Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh…" "Tatiasha… isn't it nice to know there is a God?”

“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”

“Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.”

“Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”

“When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.”

“A vampire's thirst can only be quenched by the blood of their loved ones.”

“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.”

“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

“I think some people call this love. I call it hell.”

“If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.”

“Is it crazy right now to say I love you?” She didn’t even pause. “Given that I just stabbed you? Seems a little weird, yeah.”

“Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.”