Quotes about love

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“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”

“He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.”

“Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.”

“It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”

“It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.”

“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.”

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he'd been lucky enough to find her.”

“Okay, so she is crazy. I don’t care. I think I love her.”

“His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.”

“How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.”

“A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.”

“I desired you before, but I never loved you until this life.”

“It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.”

“She loves. And she doesn't know how to pull it back when you have to, because sometimes you sure as feck have to. Got to grab it up with both hands and pull it back before somebody turns into knives and uses it to cut you to pieces.”

“Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.”

“And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell… You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl”

“When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me. She loves me forever.”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”

“I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after this. I don't want to get so used to falling in love that i get curious to experience something more extreme - whatever that may be.”

“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”

“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”

“He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.”

“Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.”

“But the answer is simple. Love is a mix tape.”

“Poor Earthworm,' the Ladybird said, whispering in James's ear. 'He loves to make everything into a disaster. He hates to be happy. He is only happy when he is gloomy.”

“Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)”

“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”

“All of us are better when we're loved.”

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard… Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

“Wow, you're awesome and The universe loves a winner, so the universe must really love you!”

“Love leaves scars.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.”

“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.”

“Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.”

“Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.”

“Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”

“Death did not play favorites—He loved all equally.
What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.
The god's voice—not quite words, just a thread of meaning laid in my receptive mind”

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”

“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”

“The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

“Nobody loves only once.”

“Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.”

“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.”

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.”

“The vampire is not a bad man, and he loves you”

“Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.”

“She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.”

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”

“It’s funny," I said. "It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun, too, to be in love."

"Do you think so?" her eyes looked flat again.

"I don’t mean fun that way. In a way it’s an enjoyable feeling."

"No," she said. "I think it’s hell on earth.”

“No, you won her over. Gave up everything for her. Maybe that's the only way to convince her you love her.”

“Love is an action, never simply a feeling.”

“I love you," I told him. There. Nice and simple. "I knew you would find me."
He smiled at me. "I would never stop looking.”

“Earth’s the right place for love:
I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“Come away with me, Astrid. (Zarek)
Why should I? (Astrid)
Because I love you, and even if I’m lying on the sun itself I’ll be freezing there without you. I need my star so that I can hear laughter. (Zarek)”

“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.”

“I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.”

“She wondered if it was her stupid mother, the goddess of love, messing with her thoughts. If Piper started getting urges to read fashion magazines, she was going to have to find Aphrodite and smack her.”

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”

“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.”

“If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.”

“I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”

“It's too late," she said.
"Don't say that." His voice was half a whisper. "I love you, Tessa. I love you.”

“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

“It was a lesson, Magnus thought, to love while you could, love what was fragile and beautiful and imperiled. Nobody was guaranteed forever.”

“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”

“Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it
apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.”

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.”

“I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown”

“And maybe you should stop pitying yourself,” he said. “Most people are lucky to have even one great love in their life. You have found two.”

“True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?”

“I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence

-from "Splittings”

“Even though we both know that our loved one will never so much as look our way we can’t erase that small something within us that continues to hope in vain.”

“If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.”

“I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

“Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?”

“I love you, I love you, I love you! And if you ever die on me again, I'll kill you so dead! (Tabitha)”

“God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched…. God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!”

“Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.”

“The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”

“People take love's continuity for granted, just as they take their body's continuity for granted. They don't realize that the best thing about love is its regular presence. Once you can establish that, it's an added foundation to your life.”

“I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.”

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”

“… i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”

“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.”

“The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.”

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”

“We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them.”

“Why wait any longer for the one you love
When he’s standing in front of you”

“Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?”

“Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it's as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they're sleeping.”

“True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.”

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”

“Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.”

“Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.”

“The angel brought you back."
"Because you asked him to. You could have anything alse in the world, and you asked for me."
"But I dont want anything else in the world. I love you. I would do it again. I would ask for you.”