Quotes about love

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“I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.”
Then I plunged the stake into his chest.”

“The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.”

“Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams,
Lover of loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
Thee must I praise above all other glories
That smile us on to tell delightful stories.”

“I will never be yours, and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you, I love you, I love you.”

“I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.”

“And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”

“If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me”

“The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.”

“Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the goodness
Be wasted forever.

Out of love,
No regrets--
Though the return
Be never.”

“… love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

“He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.”

“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.”

“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”

“The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.”

“Are you in love Mr. Cross?
Irrevocably.”

“Love After Love
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.”

“Liberty and love
These two I must have.
For my love I’ll sacrifice
My life.
For liberty I’ll sacrifice
My love.”

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”

“But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.”

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

“Usually when you’re in love, you’re miserable.”

“Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.”

“[…] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.”

“I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.”

“Love is a contradiction.”

“Love conquers all. Let Love then smile at our defeat.”
Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori.

“… there was no spell to cure a broken heart that did not also destroy that heart's capacity for love forever.”

“Fanny! You are killing me!"
"No man dies of love but on the stage, Mr. Crawford.”

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

“Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.”

“maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.”

“How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten.”

“It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

“To be interested in the changing seasons is… a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”

“When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude.”

“Random Girl after a hookup: "Do you love me"
Tucker: "I don't understand the question.”

“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”

“At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love”

“Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.”

“Actually, you can be bad at something… but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright”

“I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.”

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”

“I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

“And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories.”

“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”

“But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.”

“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.”

“It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.”

“Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.”

“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

“You are joy, looking for a way to express.
It's not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy-frolicking and eager.
That's who you are.”

“I'm naive enough to think that love is always good no matter how long ago, no matter the circumstances.”

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.”

“And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.”

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.”

“Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila.”

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but… I promise you, the right man won't care.”

“How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?”

“The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.”

“it is
forbidden to love where we are not loved”

“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”

“Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.”

“A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.”

“If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.”

“One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”

“Love is the only rational act.”

“There is plenty of work for love to do.”

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”

“I think infatuation is like a garden. If tended and cared for, it grows into love. If neglected or abused it dies. The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it's like to live without it.
-Vane”

“I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.”

“He loved constantly, instantly, spontaneously, without thought or words. That's what he taught me. Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell. That was his gift.”

“To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.”

“Love is for weak people, it's a delusion and it can be deadly.”

“Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.”

“Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment.”

“Why so scrawny, cat?
Starving for fat fish or mice…
Or backyard love?”

“If you love people, you take them on trust.”

“… love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”

“I don't like people who like me because I'm a Negro; neither do I like people who find in the same accident grounds for contempt. I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.”

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

“Rachel, my itchy witch," Al said as he tugged the lace at his cuffs. "We've talked about this. You simply must stop collecting nasty little men. How many do you really need, love?”

“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.”

“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.”

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

“My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.”

“But you love her.”
Will stared at him. “Of course I do,” he
said finally. “I had come to think I would
never love anyone, but I love her.”

“How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!”

“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”

“Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

“I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.”

“But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“Saxton was indeed clear on things: Blay was still in love with Qhuinn— and probably always would be.
“Why?” he said to his lover.
“Because I want you for however long I have you.”