Quotes about love

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“A bud is a flower-to-be. A flower in waiting. Waiting for just the right warmth and care to open up. It's a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world. And that's you.”

“I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.”

“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”

“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

“I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”

“In love there are two things - bodies and words.”

“Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.”

“Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.”

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

“I love being with you. When we're not together, i wish we were”

“I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.”

“As long as I am acting out of love, I feel I am doing best I know how.”

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”

“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”

“You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.”

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”

“When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”

“Love isn't just a feeling. It's an art. And like any art, it takes not only inspiration but also a lot of work.”

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”

“If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.”

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.”

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

“my candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light”

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.”

“Jesus watches from the wall,
But his face is cold as stone,
And if he loves me
As she tells me
Why do I feel so all alone?”

“Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.”

“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”

“Have I ever told you how much I love you, Ever? Have I? Ever, Ever?”

“A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.”

“It can't be 'true' love without the truth”

“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”

“Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?”

“… the deepest secrets about ourselves that we, in the ultimate act of humanity, will spare those we truly love.”

“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”

“Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me.”

“But like everything else, love changed.”

“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

“… history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.”

“Between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. That doesn’t mean the weaker one doesn’t love the stronger.”

“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

“I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”

“I loved him too much not to hate him at all!”

“Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?”

“It’s not the parting or the absence that’s sad. You love them, and that’s why saying good-bye breaks your heart.”

“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”

“Love was the most savage monster of all.”

“Say it," she said.
"Say it sober."
"I love you," he said.
"I don't want you to say it back unless you mean it, but I love you."
She leaned back over him, and pressed the pads of her fingertips against his.
"I mean it.”

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”

“… there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

“We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.”

“I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else… no contest.”

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”

“Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell”

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”

“Give all to love;
Obey thy heart….”

“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love”

“When a lost loved one appears before you, it's your brain that fights it, not your heart.”

“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

“Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”

“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”

“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving…”

“She had to face the fact that she couldn't protect everyone she loved. She couldn't solve every problem.”

“She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.”

“I love you more than my own skin.”

“Can I love someone… and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”

“Against his own will, almost, Will felt himself understanding; he would have done anything, he thought, told any lie, taken any risk, to make Tessa love him.”

“Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.”

“I love your bracelet!’ I said to the brunette next to me, because, while most girls are onto the whole stranger-with-candy thing, the strangers-with-compliments strategy is still remarkably effective.”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

“I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.”

“Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.

I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.”

“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”

“Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.”

“The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.”

“Love is touching souls.”

“What in life can love not penetrate?”

“He’d never get over her. He knew that without hesitation or doubt. He loved her. As deeply as it was possible to love another person. And God, he wanted her. Every day. In hit life. As much a part of him as he would be of her.”

“There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface.

There is, I think, a fear of love.

There is a fear of love.”

“Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri”

“I guess all that's left is to love the fire.”

“I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me… no one can do that.”

“To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on”

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you”

“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”

“I kissed her neck and shoulders. I felt faint with loving her so much.”

“Do you say that tree isn't pretty cause it doesn't look like that tree? We're all trees. You're a tree. I'm a tree. You've got to love your body, Eve. You've got to love your tree. Love your tree. (Leah)”

“Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. And she kissed my cheek and whispered so nobody could hear.
"I love you.”

“Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous”

“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”

“I have loved you woman
as surely as I have named you
rust and sand and nylon.”

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

“Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.”

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.”