Quotes about love

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“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”

“I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love.”

“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love”

“Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.”

“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”

“You are what you love, not what loves you.”

“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.”

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.”

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
— Pablo Neruda
From 100 Love Sonnets
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“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

“You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.”

“Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.”

“Loving means sharing what you have however big or small it may be!”

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”

“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

“If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.”

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.”

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

“why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”

“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”

“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

“Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”

“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

“Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.
Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.
Love is Life, Hatred is Death.”

“Love is being stupid together.”

“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.”

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.”

“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”

“True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.”

“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.”

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

“Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own”

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”

“People who love to eat are always the best people.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”

“Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?'
Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself."
…"At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland."
"Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.”

“Love… no such thing.

Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.

Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”

“Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever…”

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”

“But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. […] True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“Something that is loved is never lost.”

“Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
without your clothes
And everybody knows”

“The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.”

“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.”

“Love would never leave us alone”

“It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.”

“I could never throw Love out of the window.”

“I am hopelessly in love with a memory.
An echo from another time, another place.”

“Love follows knowledge.”

“More than life, more than honor, I love thee."

More than any crown or throne or title, I love thee. More than any power in faerie, I love thee.”

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”

“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

“A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.”

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”

“For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious and selfish men.”

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

“I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.”

“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”

“Only love can keep anyone alive…”

“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves.”

“Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”

“Generous love, the glue that holds everything together in a healthy relationship, aims for shared happiness through the fulfillment of one’s partner.”

“Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.”

“I wanted my heart to bloom
and shelter a shadow of love”

“Look, when you realize how fake it all is; the football, the basketball, the Lady Gaga, the Justin Bieber—you know, who gives you these carbon tax messages. They tell your kids they gotta love Justin Biebler [sic], and then Biebler [sic] says "hand in your guns", "pass the Cyber Security Act", and "the police state is good", and then your children are turned into a mindless vassals—who now, they look up to some twit, instead of looking up to Thomas Jefferson, or looking up to Nikola Tesla, or looking up to Magellan; I mean, kids, Magellan is a lot cooler than Justin Bieber! He circumnavigated with one ship the entire planet! He was killed by wild natives before they got back to Portugal! And when they got back there was only like eleven people alive of the two hundred and something crew and the entire ship was rotting down to the waterline! That's destiny! That's will! That's striving! That's being a trailblazer and explore! Going into space! Mathematics! Quantum mechanics! The secrets of the universe! It's all there! Life is fiery with its beauty! Its incredible detail! Tuning into it! They wanna shutter your mind, talking about Justin Bieber! It's pure evil! They're taking your intellect, your soul, and giving you Michael Jordan and Bieber. Unlock your human potential! Defeat the globalists who wanna shutter your mind!—Your doorways to perception!—I wanna see you truly live! I wanna see you truly be who you are!”

“The biggest thing has been realizing how much people really do love the early Sabbath music. People have said it in the past but I've never really believed them before. I remember years ago when Metallica opened up for me, I went backstage and they were playing old Black Sabbath albums and I thought they were taking the piss! They said, 'No, we really love Sabbath.' I couldn't see that at the time--because towards the end of my time with Sabbath 20 years ago I thought what we were doing was boring and stupid, because we were boring and stupid, totally sick of what we were doing and totally out of our brains with drink or drugs when we were playing it.”

“I'll try to say a little more:
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door —
Then Love Itself
Love Itself was gone.”

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and our young, our women as well as our men.
I see nothing inconsistent between being proud of oneself and one's ancestors and, at the same time, seeing oneself first and foremost a member of the commonwealth of all races and creeds.”

“What honey? What is that? It's a sign, I can't see it, wait a minute. Oh, thank you darlin', thank you very much. Oh, thank you. The thought is beautiful dear, and I love you for it, but I, I haven't been caught up in this thing and I can't accept this kingship thing because to me there's only one, which is Christ.”

“May everyone live,
And may everyone die.
Hello, my love,
And my love, Goodbye.”

“We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions”

“Sometimes I am tempted to believe that I am better than anybody because I know Him. And then I remember that, I don't know him because I was smart enough to figure out some riddle. And I don't know him because I was good enough to ascend into heaven on my own and shake hands with him and meet him. Of all the things that make God awesome, the most awesome thing in the world that I can imagine from a god is that one who would be holy, and one that would be just,… and one that would be innocent and beautiful, and would have no need of me… that someone like that could love me is amazing. And uh, that does not make me a good person; but it makes Him a great God!”

“On whether there are any aspects of fame he dislikes: You kidding? I feel very fortunate. A lot of people would love to be in my position. There are so many people out there who are suffering trillions of times more than I could ever suffer, and would love to be me. I am a lucky little bastard.”

“And I love doing what I'm doing and I'd get out of it if I hated it that much. I've said it many times before: There are much worse problems in the world, people dealing with things that are phenomenally more complicated.”