Quotes about love

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“A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.”

“She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.”

“Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.”

“Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.”

“Oh, come forth into the storm and rout
And be my love in the rain.”

“It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits”

“Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.”

“You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

“I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.”

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”

“What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.
"Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.”

“A woman who had fallen out of love with her life”

“I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.”

“It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out
of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a
short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.”

“There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside. If I pick the right one I can be beautiful, or fall in love, or live happily ever after. Maybe even all three.”

“You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.”

“I think you cannot root out love entirely. I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame.”

“Deep down inside, my heart knew the score.
And I know that Haven was wrong.
It's not always a case of one loving more than the other.
When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally.
Differently - but still equal.”

“God loves you just as you are, but He loves you too much to leave you just as you are.”

“I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love.”

“I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.”

“Power without guilt, love without doubt….”

“It is not biology that determines fatherhood. It is love.”

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

“You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love.”

“If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?”

“There are very few who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement”

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”

“She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.”

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

“You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. It’s the playing that’s irresistible. Dicing from one year to the next with the things you love, what you risk reveals what you value.”

“He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.”

“To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed.”

“Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again…. Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love…”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.”

“Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”

“This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.”

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”

“Love can touch us one time
And last for a life time
And never let go till
We're gone.”

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

“I'm 38 and I'm single and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in different ways, and this way happens to be mine.”

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”

“To love--to fall--is not a question.
To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.”

“Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?”

“He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.”

“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

“There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours”

“Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.”

“When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.”

“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser”

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”

“That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”

“A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.”

“One can love two children. But your heart can be given romantic love to only a single other, said Woolsey.”

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

“I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.”

“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”

“That strange, twisted, torn love.

That conflict between what your heart knows is right and what your mind is told is right.”

“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.”

“The half life of love is forever.”

“We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.”

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

“Love heals scars love left”

“Being with Mary was different because… he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her.
The beast wanted her, too.
The beast wanted out so it could take her.”

“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”

“But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.”

“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”

“It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.”

“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”

“I am in love with Hope.”

“A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.”

“He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs…”

“With our love, we could save the world.”

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that love, that trust.”

“To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.”

“Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.”

“She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.”

“But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end..”

“Oh, womanly sympathy, love AND food?" I said, laughing. "Don't want a lot, do you?”

“…I finally understood what true love really meant. …that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.”

“In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.”

“what a luxury it was for people to be
able to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted.”

“Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.”

“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

“We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?”

“Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.”

“No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change.”

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”

“How many times could you give up on someone you loved?”

“She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.”

“And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benetar or the Cure on the soundtrack.”

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”

“The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately.”