Quotes about love

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“Love is a better master than duty.”

“Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.”

“No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts —
That hope always triumphs over experience —
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

“Let me love you, but don't love me back. Do love me and let me hate you for a while. Let me feel like I have some control, because I know I never do.”

“True. I'd always hoped that when I finally said 'I love you' to a girl, she'd say 'I know' back, like Leia did to Han in Return of the Jedi.”

“The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.”

“Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'
Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together.”

“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”

“You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.”

“Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.
~Kyoya”

“Who loves you most? Who loves you best? Who thinks of you when others rest?”

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.”

“It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.”

“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”

“… we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.”

“It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.”

“I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.”

“Him that I love, I wish to be
Free — 
Even from me.”

“They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.”

“No one ever fell in love gracefully.”

“You belong where you're loved.”

“Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.”

“I love you Aurora Eden you are so unpredictably predictable!”

“And you'll always love me won't you?
Yes
And the rain won't make any difference?
No”

“I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.”

“Nykyrian gave him a feral grimace. But when he spoke, his soft, lilting tone belied his fierce expression. “Syn… what can I say? I love you, man. I can’t live without you. are the air I breathe.”

“Here is my experience. Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. What you want to live and be happy in the world is a woman who has her own life and lets you have yours.”

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth… A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match… Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins”

“There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”

“In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?”

“If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”

“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn't bother to torture you if she didn't.”

“Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.”

“Falling in love was not really a choice; it just struck me.”

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

“Say it,” she said, and he said, “I love you. I’ll always love you. Forever. It’s a life sentence. Now put the damn ring on.”

“Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.”

“Love is the absence of Anxiety.”

“When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I’d really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.”

“There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.”

“A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

“Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.”

“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?”

“Love can smack you like a seagull, and pour all over your feet like junkmail. You can't be ready for such a thing any more than salt water taffy gets you ready for the ocean.”

“You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”

“What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.”

“Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.”

“Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline”

“He hadn't loved me well in the end, but he'd loved me well when it mattered.”

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

“He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?”

“Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.”

“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”

“We have to be able to criticize what we love,
Say what we have to say,
'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,
Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

“"You're pining."
"Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--'"”

“Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.”

“If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.”

“Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.”

“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover.”

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.”

“I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love”

“I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.”

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

“There was nothing I loved more than teasing Dimitri. Well, aside from maybe kissing him.”

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”

“Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.”

“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”

“She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.”

“I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.
You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,
And long enough to see some change.”

“So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.”

“Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away”

“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do for loving Coke with peanuts. Isn't that a shame we don't have many more ways to say it?”

“Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.”

“How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.”

“You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.”

“To love others you must first love yourself.”

“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”

“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?”

“Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.”

“Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.”

“It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel.”

“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.”

“Kiss me again, but don't let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer--but yours! How can I?”

“So do boys and men announce their intentions. They cover you like a sarcophagus lid. And call it love.”

“We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones”

“The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.”

“There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”

“And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free.”

“Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.”