Quotes about love

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“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”

“It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.”

“No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.”

“God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.”

“Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.

They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer.

His fairy story.”

“Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.”

“It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything.” - Amelia to Poppy”

“Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong.”

“I can tell you love him. (Syn)
Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara)”

“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.”

“If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?”

“That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.”

“Love the people who love you back.”

“I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.”

“I loved him so much. It didn't change all the reasons we couldn't be together, but it kept me returning to his body, kept my skin seeking his skin over and over again in the sad dance we did.”

“She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.”

“And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose”

“I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.”

“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”

“You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.”

“Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

“Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves.”

“Must’ve been hard on your mom,” Frank said. “I guess we’ll do anything for someone we love.”
Hazel squeezed his hand appreciatively. Nico stared at the cobblestones. “Yeah,” he said bitterly. “I guess we will.”

“I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.”

“Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

“That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.”

“You love me this much!”

“In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.”

“We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.”

“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”

“All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them.”

“You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

…"Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”

“Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

“I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.”

“In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”

“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Love is a friendship set to music.”

“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”

“You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.”

“Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.”

“me: you know what sucks about love?
o. w. g.: what?
me: that it's so tied to the truth.”

“It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.”

“In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.”

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”

“It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it”

“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”

“Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”

“There isso mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”

“A Love like this happens but once in a lifetime”

“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”

“I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought hats" - Christian”

“You never forget your first love.”

“He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.”

“I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I've ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?”

“I would rather be a cripple and have your love for all of a single moment than to live as I am without ever having it.”

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because… you are always me.”

“Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!”

“I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.”

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”

“It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.”

“I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm not necessarily proud to be female. I am not even proud to be human—I only love to be so.”

“And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences.”

“I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much.”

“And what else is she?" Jerome asked. Jazza didn't offer any reply so I chimed in with, "A bitchweasel?"
"A bitchweasel!" Jazza's face lit up. "She's a bitchweasel! I love my new roommate.”

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

“People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

“We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.”

“I lean over and put my good ear to his lips, which tickle me as he whispers. "Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me any time you like it.”

“Our love, our love will last forever. It's forever but it just doesn't work. That's why it will always be romantic because it can not be complete.”

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“… the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”

“Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he’s right, we are supposed to be madly in love.”

“Hare Krishna, Peace and Love”

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

“What's that sticky stuff called?

Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.”

“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”

“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”

“We were restless for ages… After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.”

“And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.”

“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too.”

“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”

“You're strong—you're so, so strong. It's why I love you.”

“I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so
In whining poetry.”

“Shigure: "That's lovely. She’s so… how shall I say it? By putting it into words I'm afraid the nobility of it all would only be obscured."
Yuki: "Of what?"
Shigure: "You know, she's so spunky!"
Kyo: "You sick bastard!”

“This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.”

“The minute I knew I was in love was the minute when there was no question about it.”

“If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.”

“That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.”

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”

“There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.”

“Because I love you.”

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

“And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon.”

“In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.”

“They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.”

“You're a Dark-Hunter."
He kissed her lightly on the lips. "What I am is a man in love with a woman. I want you, Amanda. For the rest of my blessedly short mortal life. I want to wake at dawn with you in my arms and watch our children play and fight.”