Quotes about love

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“Men aren't stupid, and you don't need a complicated set of rules to find a good one who loves you. Here's the only rule you need: if a man loves you, he will do anything he can to keep you around. Anything.”

“Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma: Hug me, honey, snuggly bunny; Love's as good as soma.”

“[She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.”

“I love you. It was the tie that bound, even across the divides of death and time.”

“Unfinished Poem
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”

“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

--The Sensible Thing”

“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”

“tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

“… it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”

“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”

“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”

“Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.”

“Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna… love you… grrr?'" Olivia to Annalia”

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

“Don't forget to love yourself.”

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

“What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.”

“You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.”

“Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave”

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”

“I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.”

“We are each the love of someone's life.”

“If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours.”

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town.”

“I want nothing from love, in short, but love.”

“You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!”

“Did I love what I was doing, or did I love myself in doing it?”

“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”

“Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again”

“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.”

“I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it.”

“Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.”

“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”

“Love is a drama of contradictions.”

“Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.”

“You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you—which will be soon.
Love, D.”

“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”

“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

“The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.”

“She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong.”

“They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.”

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”

“I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.”

“I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.”

“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”

“Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.”

“I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”

“I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses”

“Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?”

“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”

“People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.”

“There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.”

“Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.”

“I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.”

“Love makes life a little brighter”

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”

“I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.”

“One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.”

“Unconditional love is an undisciplined love and, as we all have seen, undisciplined love is disastrous.”

“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”

“Unlike Ray Porter, his love is fearless and without reservation.”

“Then marry me. For I love you, and I do not believe there is anything so wrong with you. You are fair in my eyes and you lie fair on my heart.”

“That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.”

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”

“Love is deceitful and sublime. In its truest form, it brings out the best in all beings. At its worse, It's a tool used to manipulate and ruin any one who is stupid enough to hold it. Don't be stupid.”

“But that is the dual gift of love, isn’t it? The joy of greeting and the sorrow of good-bye.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”

“I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack”

“It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.”

“I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.”

“My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.”

“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”

“My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.”

“Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.”

“I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.”

“And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.”

“I am crying over the elusive nature of love.”

“Love explains a lot.”

“A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.”

“So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.”

“He looked at her
Something
Turned cancerous
He was in love.”

“Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love”

“Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.”

“I am not insane," he said. "A woman of your highly advanced intellect ought to be able to perceive that I am in love. With you. I wish you had told me. It was deuced embarrassing to find it out from your *brother*.”

“As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.”

“There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.”

“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”

“The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.”

“Because that was the night I knew I loved you. That I’d really and truly fallen in love.”

“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”

“It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.”