Quotes about love

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“Darling" she said with a small laugh "Love doesn’t have anything to do with this."

"It has very thing to do with it!" I exclaimed.”

“You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”

“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”

“The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.”

“there are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.”

“… the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something… or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”

“I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V.”

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

“Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.”

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

“If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain
We'd hunt down Love together,
Pluck out his flying-feather,
And teach his feet a measure,
And find his mouth a rein;
If you were Queen of pleasure
And I were King of pain.”

“Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.”

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

“Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet;
Those who love each other shall become invincible.”

“Only you," he said, so softly I could barely hear him. "To worship ye with my body, give ye all the service of my hands. To give ye my name, and all my heart and soul with it. Only you. Because ye will not let me lie--and yet ye love me.”

“It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.”

“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”

“We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.”

“I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say.”

“What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”

“Surely the earth can be saved
by all the people
who insist
on love.”

“No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.”

“TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE

i don't know
if I will
ever understand
this Ache.
Perhaps it is
simpley and completely
Love and


what

HAPPENS.
at the end.

Loss

November 17, early morning”

“To find riches is a beggar’s dream, but to find love is the dream of kings.”

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

“I meant I’m not afraid of love being difficult. If it was easy, then everyone would find it.”

“Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.”

“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”

“Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name."
"It's Taylor's middle name”

“Love is the only engine of survival”

“Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.”

“Darkness… When everything that you know and love… is taken from you so harshly… all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge… and no one can save you.”

“Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.”

“And maybe that’s was her biggest crime of all. Making him fall in love with her.”

“If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.”

“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto”

“Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.”

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.”

“There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either of you. Will is myself, my own soul, and if I am not to have the keeping of your heart, then there is not other I would rather have that honor.”

“Till I loved I never liked enough.”

“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, only additive ones.”

“Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”

“You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you?" - Gin Ichimaru awww”

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”

“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”

“I can tell you that the end of life is the some of the love that was lived in it.”

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”

“… love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.”

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.”

“… so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.”

“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”

“Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?”

“Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.”

“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”

“Love you,” Maya says. “Yes, she keeps saying that,” A. J. says. “I warned her about giving love that hasn’t yet been earned, but honestly, I think it’s the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, you know?”

“The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.”

“When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart…”

“I may not feel significant until someone expresses love to me.”

“I love Canada… It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.”

“Those who cannot love do not understand it”

“Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.”

“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”

“I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't."

"That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.”

“We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.”

“But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”

“Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together…”

“Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.”

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”

“True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.”

“She made an impatient noise. "By the Angel, you don't know anything about your kid, do you? Do you even really know how vampires are made?"
"Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much…”

“Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.”

“There's no love without pain.”

“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”

“We love our lovin'…. but not like we love our freedom.”

“Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Cupid said.”

“I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.”

“Yes, Jenna, I love you with all my heart. And with my atoms and molecules and electrons and whatever further breakdown you require.”

“Love, I find, is like singing.”

“Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.”

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“Also I wanted to be able to love
And we all know how that one goes, don't we?
Slowly”

“Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation.”

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

“"Life has to end." Marguerite said. "Love doesn't"”

“Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.”

“To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.”

“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
"It means that love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

“Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.”

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”

“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“You doubt because you love truth.”

“Time is how you spend your love.”

“There is
By my leaning over the precipice
Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion
My finding the secret
Of loving you
Always for the first time”