Quotes about love

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“And without Dex in my life, I like to think I could have somehow found contentment. But the truth is, I feel freer with Dex than I ever did when I was single. I feel more myself with him than without. Maybe true love does that”

“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”

“I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.'
'Do you mean to say that if I left you---'
'I'd die, yes.'
'Then you love me?”

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

“There are lots of real men out there - men who could fall in love with you at the drop of a hat.”

“I can't love you unless I give you up.”

“Love is not an equation… It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.”

“Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!”

“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”

“The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.”

“Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.”

“Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me, I would love him alone and forever”

“When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.”

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

“Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?”

“I judge you not by the sex of whom you love… but by how you love them.
-Layla, page 306”

“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”

“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”

“He was waving. "Saukerl," she laughed, and as she held up her hand, she knew completely that he was simultaneously calling her a Saumensch. I think that's as close to love as eleven-year-olds can get.”

“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

“Most important and most vulnerable of human emotions; Love.”

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

“…… When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

“I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.”

“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”

“I love my virginity to the apocalypse.”

“I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.”

“I still believed he'd love me again somehow, love me that intense, thick way he did, the way that made everything good.”

“You like him because he's a lost boy. Believe me, I've seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”

“What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?”

“Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.”

“So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.”

“I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty.”

“I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again…”

“We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.”

“I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake”

“I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.”

“I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?'
'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.”

“We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.”

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

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

“People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don’t look and it’s magic”

“fraught, adj.

Does every “I love you” deserve an “I love you too”? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover?
If the answer to any of these is “No,” what do we do?”

“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”

“Next to being married, a girl likes being crossed in love a little now and again.”

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary)
But it doesn’t feel temporary. (Arik)
It never does at its onset. It’s only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)”

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

“There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother… Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.”

“It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.”

“I love you, Elizabeth… and more than that, I like you. I enjoy spending time with you.”

“Wage war on death. Live for love.”

“He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away.”

“Young lovers see a vision of the world redeemed by love. That is the truest thing they ever see, for without it life is death.”

“Love's a tidal wave," she says.
"Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask.
"No. Because it sucks you under and you drown."
"But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat.”

“You hold in your hand an invitation: to remember the transforming power of forgiveness and loving kindness. To remember that no matter where you are and what you face, within your heart peace is possible.”

“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

“Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.”

“Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love’s transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.”

“All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)”

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”

“I love you, Eveline," he whispered, though he knew she could not hear him. "Somehow, I'll make you hear me and you'll know that I love you as fiercely as it's possible for a man to love a woman.”

“I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.

--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”

“That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

“The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.”

“Don't stop doing what you love.
Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.”

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16”

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

“You learn to move on without the people you love.”

“Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.”

“Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,
but looking, and touching, and loving”

“Don't love anything that can be taken away.”

“I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.”

“At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.”

“Then there you are, then. The day Howl forgets to do that will be the day I believe he's really in love, and not before."
Michael to Sophie about wether or not Howl is really in love with Lettie. pg, 170”

“A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?”

“You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.”

“The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces.”

“Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.”

“You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.”

“How could you stop loving me?”

“I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.”

“… can I tell you something…? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.”

“He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”

“It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.”

“You just have to let people love you in the way they can”

“A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.”

“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

“A wise man can be a fool in love.”

“It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.”