Quotes about love

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“Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile."
"A what?" asked Eragon.
"One who loves books," explained Jeod.”

“Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.”

“There's only one thing that can heal the heart… Only one… It's love, Gaara.”

“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”

“Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.”

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”

“Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.”

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.”

“I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.”

“There is no pretending", Jace said with absolute clarity."I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then."
She caught her breath. He had said it-the words there was no going back from.”

“I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”

“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time… detached.”

“Actually, you said Love, for you,
is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s
terrifying. No one
will ever want to sleep with you.”

“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”

“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.”

“Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you secruity and friendship and didn't ask for anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”

“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”

“If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?”

“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.”

“some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.”

“I love you anyway-even if there isn't any me or any love or even any life-
I love you.”

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”

“I love those who can smile in trouble…”

“It is very easy to love alone.”

“Love is the mystery of water and a star.”

“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”

“If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but run their devouring course, destroying the very foundations which it was imagined they would save.

But we are unbelievably ignorant concerning what goes on in our country--to say nothing of what goes on in the rest of the world--and appear to have become too timid to question what we are told. Our failure to trust one another deeply enough to be able to talk to one another has become so great that people with these questions in their hearts do not speak them; our opulence is so pervasive that people who are afraid to lose whatever they think they have persuade themselves of the truth of a lie, and help disseminate it; and God help the innocent here, that man or womn who simply wants to love, and be loved. Unless this would-be lover is able to replace his or her backbone with a steel rod, he or she is doomed. This is no place for love. I know that I am now expected to make a bow in the direction of those millions of unremarked, happy marriages all over America, but I am unable honestly to do so because I find nothing whatever in our moral and social climate--and I am now thinking particularly of the state of our children--to bear witness to their existence. I suspect that when we refer to these happy and so marvelously invisible people, we are simply being nostalgic concerning the happy, simple, God-fearing life which we imagine ourselves once to have lived. In any case, wherever love is found, it unfailingly makes itself felt in the individual, the personal authority of the individual. Judged by this standard, we are a loveless nation. The best that can be said is that some of us are struggling. And what we are struggling against is that death in the heart which leads not only to the shedding of blood, but which reduces human beings to corpses while they live.”

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”

“When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.”

“People who are filled with hate don't know how to handle love.”

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”

“It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.”

“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.”

“Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.”

“Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?”

“Must I go bound while you go free
Must I love a manwho doesn't love me
Must I be born with so little art
As to love a man who'll break my Heart”

“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”

“I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?”

“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”

“Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.”

“There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her.”

“The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire.”

“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.”

“If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.”

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope… I have loved none but you.”

“I have noticed that the Universe loves Gratitude. The more Grateful you are, the more goodies you get”

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others”

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

“Anyone can love a thing. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

“There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.”

“Everyone loves something, even if it's only tortillas.”

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”

“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”

“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”

“Let our scars fall in love.”

“Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.”

“Spiritually evolved people, by virtue of their discipline, mastery and love, are people of extraordinary competence, and in their competence they are called on to serve the world, and in their love they answer the call.”

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”

“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task… tremendous and foolish and human.”

“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”

“I never was in love - yet the voice and the shape of a woman has haunted me these two days.”

“people die, but real love is forever”

“Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”

“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

“I love you still, that's the torment of it. Lestat I never loved. But you! The measure of my hatred is that love. They are the same! Do you know now how much I hate you!”

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

“It's better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you're not. It's a sign of your worth sometimes, if you're hated by the right people.”

“All is fair in love and war”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.”

“… Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”

“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”

“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”

“The more men you've had, the more I love you.”

“How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?”

“This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected — in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.”

“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”

“A heart ain't a brain
But I think
That I still love
you”

“So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.”

“Whoever loves become humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”

“First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one's enemies without prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us. It is also necessary to realize that the forgiving act must always be initiated by the person who has been wronged, the victim of some great hurt, the recipient of some tortuous injustice, the absorber of some terrible act of oppression.”

“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”

“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”

“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”

“Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night…”

“she may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile.. what else matters?”

“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”

“Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”

“I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.”

“Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.”

“Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God’s revelation is given to something called a loving heart.”

“I love her and that's the beginning of everything…”

“To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)”