Quotes about love

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“I basked in you;
I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.
And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.
Besides,
in my opinion you aren't dead.
(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”

“That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.”

“You have to live to really know things, my love”

“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.”

“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”

“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”

“UncondiTional love is a beauTiful Thing. JusT be sure To
give iT after your conditions have been meT :P”

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

“If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.”

“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”

“Softly, Magnus said, "Aku cinta kamu."
"What does that mean?"
Magnus disentangled himself from Alec's grip. "It means I love you. Not that that changes anything.”

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

“Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend.”

“He is bound to you,” said the Queen. “But does he love you?”

“Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.”

“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”

“You cannot convince people to love you.”

“I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.”

“Mac reflected on the Unseelie King and his concubine:

He’d loved her for all time
After he’d believed she was gone
Sunshine to his ice.
Frost to her fever.
I wished them forever. The Unseelie King was gone.”

“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

“In this life, no matter what anyone promises you, what allegiances of love or fealty they swear or what gods they pray to, you will never have more than what you have at this moment.”

“When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.”

“And hope is like love… a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.”

“Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart.”

“When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.”

“I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.”

“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”

“To love is to lose control.  —Paulo Coelho”

“He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery…”

“Love weighs nothing.”

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”

“Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.”

“you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain”

“He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.”

“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, or drop a jar of applesauce.”

“I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.”

“Because we all love imperfectly.”

“Love made you a liar.”

“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves”

“I viddied that thinking is for the gloopy ones and that the oomny ones use like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid.”

“He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.”

“I'm going to a dance."
With Becky?"
No, with Alexander."
Who's Alexander?"
The love of my life!”

“Maybe all young men who love us become knights in shining armor when we love them back.”

“Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.”

“Yet love enters my blood like an I. V.,
dripping in its little white moments.”

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

“love had turned into "love affair" with a begining and an end.”

“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could go where I wouldn't love you. Nothing you could do to stop me.”

“If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.”

“I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

“Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.”

“Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.”

“I was a heartless, ungrateful wench of a girl who promised everyone who came into contact with me a one-way ticket to pain and hurt. I didn’t know how to love and I didn’t deserve to be loved back.”

“I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”

“If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when…. hard things happen.”

“Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”

“I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me
I am sending back the key;
in his eye's darkroom I can see
my X-rayed heart, dissected body:
I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard s study.”

“Love is like cigarettes. It gives you a little pleasure while you're at it, but leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and a pain in your chest.”

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”

“It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.”

“I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.”

“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.”

“I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.”

“And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some peoples moan and groan. P.238”

“….. It means everything. It means I love you. It means I want you. It means I want you to be okay. It means everything.”

“Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.”

“It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.”

“What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked.
"You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.”

“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”

“He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.”

“He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.”

“Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him"
Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have been a tiny piece of lint there. " I know. You thought you weren't?”

“How much do you love me?' Midori asked.

'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.”

“Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.”

“We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.”

“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”

“Weird love's better than no love at all.”

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

“Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!”

“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”

“Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”

“Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.”

“storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
I tread day and night such roads.”

“A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.”

“To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

“Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.”

“The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.”

“Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.”

“We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.”

“Love can fuel hate.”

“Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait.
Love, Michael.”

“It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand.”

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

“There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each other; you know that when you see the syrupy cover. It's how get there that's the fun.”