Quotes about love

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“It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.”

“There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

“There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.”

“All is love… All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.”

“Before you make a decision," he said, "I want you to know that I love you.”

“You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.”

“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep”

“HARRY DRESDEN—WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment”

“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

“Love turns work into rest.”

“Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.”

“you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked.
LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.”

“The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.”

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.”

“It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.”

“Boo: "Go talk to her."

Callum: "About what?"

Boo: "Anything."

Callum: "You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"

Boo: "I do that."

Callum: "I love it when you get it wrong.”

“I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.”

“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”

“(a womanist)

3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.”

“I knew you loved me and that you'd do anything for me. And that was one of the reasons it hurt so much when you ended it, Dawson. Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.”

“True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.”

“Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds”

“Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.”

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”

“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”

“Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.”

“Every love story is a ghost story.”

“She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.”

“In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.”

“Love one another, but let’s try not to possess one another.”

“Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.”

“Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)”

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms”

“I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?”

“The mature response to the problem of existence is love.”

“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”

“The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.”

“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”

“I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled m thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom and all the choices that the future promised me. To be honest, the decision was easy.
-Lukas Jessen-Petersen”

“It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.”

“That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.”

“There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.”

“You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't a true love.. the love that speaks the language of the world.”

“How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?”

“She's had so little love, Jesse thought, I will drown her in it for the rest of her life.”

“… lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.”

“There are six reasons anyone does anything: Love. Faith. Greed. Boredom. Fear…" he said, ticking them off on his fingers; but he lingered on the last, drawing a deep breath before he said, "Revenge.”

“Love is always bestowed as a gift!
freely, willingly, and without expectation….
We don't love to be loved, we love to love”

“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”

“You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for
love.

Myrnin.”

“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”

“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

“What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.”

“Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.”

“I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.”

“When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.”

“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”

“All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love,
No hand to left or right,
An emptiness above--

Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all your years.”

“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it.”

“She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.”

“I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you." - Tessa Gray”

“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”

“It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.”

“In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.”

“I must have loved you a lot.”

“Girls have to be strong to protect the men they love.”

“From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends.”

“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.”

“I love you.""Sorry… what did you…? The planes noise was…”

“You see how it is with us? You can't fight it any more than I can. You've tried; you've done everything you can to kill it. But you can't kill my love for you.”

“She had a bottomless well of love for me.”

“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”

“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”

“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.”

“You're not sick you're just in love.”

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

“You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.”

“As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.”

“Without contraries there is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence.”

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

“Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."”

“Jace is in love with the idea of dying,” said Isabelle.”

“In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.”

“Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father)
Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)”

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”

“Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?”

“Love is too precious to be ashamed of.”

“You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.”

“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.”

“Love and death are everything, Jenny. Danger is the best part of the game. I thought you knew that."
-Julian”

“Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love”

“We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.”

“…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.”

“On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris”

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”

“You love her. (Shanus)
I barely know her. (Wulf)
Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)”