Quotes about love

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“People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.”

“Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.”

“I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”

“Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.”

“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”

“If I had but an hour of love, if that be all that is given me, an hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee.”

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”

“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”

“If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big colour photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer.”

“I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.”

“After all, my earstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?”

“I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.”

“I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.”

“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”

“It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.”

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

“To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”

“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick…”

“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”

“…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.”

“Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life”

“I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could
have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer”

“Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.”

“Art is the accomplice of love.”

“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”

“Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk”

“What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and world destruction?”

“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

“Why break the heart that never beat from love?”

“No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.”

“Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.”

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.”

“Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.”

“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

“The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.”

“Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being”

“She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.”

“Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible. (Charles Haanel)”

“I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”

“We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem”

“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.”

“God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.”

“When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.”

“When you get… to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.”

“Does he love you so much?" "He would commit murder for me.”

“Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.”

“Love can change us beyond recognition, we become love-sick, soft-eyed jelly-bellied fools.”

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”

“Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.
--Prince Carrick”

“God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)”

“Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.”

“In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.”

“So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she's unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon, not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?"
"Love is a contradiction," said Jace.”

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

“Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?… And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?”

“Love is such a magic thing. It can make you feel like your floating in the clouds without a trouble in the world.”

“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”

“I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

“That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.”

“Isabelle!” Simon called. “Stop throwing clothes at me! Just because you’re a Shadowhunter and I’m a vampire doesn’t mean we can never happen. Our love is forbidden like the love of a shark and a—and a shark hunter. But that’s what makes it special.”

“Never say love is "like" anything… It isn't.”

“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”

“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

“They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational.. even the inexcusable.”

“We weren’t ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.”

“It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.

It's too late to be grateful,
It's too late to be hateful,
It's too late to be late again,
The European cannon is here.”

“Grief dares us to love once more.”

“I deserve passion," she said. "I deserve to be loved- in every way. I deserve a man who'll give his whole heart, not the part he isn't using at the moment..”

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”

“A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.”

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”

“I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.”

“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

“Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”
She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.”

“It’s all relative, I suppose. You think you know love, you think you know real pain, but you don’t. You don’t know anything.”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

“Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.”

“To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.”

“The baby understands that its mother loves it. […] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.”

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”

“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

“God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.”

“When you know my love, my love will warm you.”

“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”

“Love changes us, but we change how we love too.”

“Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?”

“Limit love and you limit life.”

“So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.”

“Alec shrugged "Look who's talking. 'Oh, I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why--"
Jace threw a handful of dead leaves at Alec, making him splutter.
Isabelle was laughing. "You know he's right, Jace.”