Quotes about love

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“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love”

“When the karma of a relationship is done, only love remains. It's safe. Let go.”

“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

“Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.”

“Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”

“Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.”

“Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.”

“I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!”

“But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.”

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”

“The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.”

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)”

“And did you love me?”

“And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary.”

“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.”

“Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, I'll be anybody you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and big hair. Take me apart. Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric”

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

“Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.”

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect… As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”

“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

“The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.”

“Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.”

“I loved you way before you ever had a chance to put a spell on me. I loved you at 'I've never been to Long Island,'" Zach said.
I couldn't keep a big goofy grin from my face.
I loved you at 'I like seals,'" I admitted. He grinned back.”

“I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius”

“We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.”

“Love turns a heart to crystal… Much more valuable, but much more fragile.”

“Love is no game! It is no flowery softness! It is hard work- It demands everything from you- especially the truth. Only then does it yield results.”

“Once, when I was young and true.
Someone left me sad -
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.”

“You look like a Goth factory exploded all over you!" he called as she ran down the hall.
"Love you, too, jackass!”

“The miracle of love comes to us in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.”

“I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.”

“Hanajima: To truly love someone is to always put thier feelings before your own… No matter what.”

“Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.”

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

“Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.”

“But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love… someone to hold on to… someone”

“When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.”

“Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.”

“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”

“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”

“Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.”

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”

“So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.”

“To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.”

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”

“How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?”

“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage until he finds you.”

“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”

“What is done in love is done well.”

“If ye loved him, he must ha' been a good man.'
'Yes, he… was.'
'Then I shall do my best to honor his spirit by serving his wife.”

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”

“Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.”

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

“Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.”

“Life loves the liver of it.”

“If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.”

“This was love, new and bright and terrifying”

“It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive.”

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

“Every letter was a love letter.”

“His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.”

Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do.”

“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”

“Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.”

“… I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.”

“My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.”

“We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”

“The opposite of love isn't hate; it's indifference”

“I hate the moon. I hate tides and earthquakes and volcanoes. I hate a world where things that have absolutely nothing to do with me can destroy my life and the lives of people I love.”

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

“If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life”

“I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman”

“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

“You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.”

“Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.”

“If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.”

“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”

“I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.”

“You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.”

“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”

“You can," he said. There was a tremulous note in his voice. "You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.”

“I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.”

“The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

“I love muscle cars.”

“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”

“A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?”

“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”

“Your mind was made to know and love God.”

“She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.”

“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”

“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”

“That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133.”