Quotes about love

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“I opened my mouth and kissed you then, the first time all night, attacked you and surrendered completely, and let’s get out of here. I’m ready, I’m finished, let’s not break up, no, no. Take me home, my boyfriend, my love.”

“Allow me to explain how my whole life has prepared me for this moment. I am used to girls screaming, and your screams – will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.”

“I sustain myself with the love of family.”

“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”

“You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.”

“You can never love the same way twice”

“So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.”

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

“She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.”

“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.”

“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”

“I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.”

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

“He crouched at the car window and looked in. 'What a lovely family you have. What a charming family. They're all lovely. Except for that one.' His finger jabbed the glass. 'That one's a bit ugly.”

“I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.”

“After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.”

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday…”

“It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.”

“The god’s expression was calm and content, as if he’d just come home from a lovely evening strolling through the Fields of Punishment, enjoying the screams of the damned.”

“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”

“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

“Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning.
Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.”

“Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.”

“Because in the end nothing is worse than seeing the fall of one you loved. It was somehow worse than losing a love. It made everything seem questionable. It made the past bitter and confused.”

“but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.”

“We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”

“If you love something/Set it free/If it loves you/It will come back to you/ If it doesn't--hunt it down and kill it.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.”

“And therefor," said Magnus "We must go."
Will blinked at him. "Go where?"
"Don't worry about that right now, my love."
Will blinked again. "Pardon?”

“I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.”

“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.”

“… hear rumors and go digging for the painful truth beneath the lovely lies. You believe you have a right to these things, but you don't. When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.”

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

“Oh for the sweet humpin' love of Tink! ~ Jenks”

“Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.”

“Every life has one true love snapshot.”

“Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.”

“Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?”

“I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.”

“It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

“No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think.”

“Who knew love could kill you?”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“Those that go searching for love
only make manifest their own lovelessness,
and the loveless never find love,
only the loving find love,
and they never have to seek for it.”

“You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!”

“The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.”

“She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.”

“Love -- not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love seesthem to the secret inside.”

“Sometimes I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unlovable in it, for all of it is part of me.”

“Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.”

“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”

“Gentleness clears the soul
Love cleans the mind
And makes it Free.”

“I love beautiful; always have. I never saw why I should hate what I wish I had. Love it harder. Work your way closer. Clasp your hands around it tighter. Till you find a way to make it yours.”

“A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of”

“When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.”

“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”

“Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.”

“There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.”

“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”

“The real test of love is when a person—including you—can know your weaknesses, your stupidities and your smallnesses, and still love you.”

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

“There’ll always be wars because men love wars. Women don’t, but men do..”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“I love people. I love my family, my children … but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

“And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.”

“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.”

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”

“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”

“There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.”

“If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?”

“It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.”

“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

“Love is blind,” Harriet quipped.

“But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.”

“Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

“All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.”

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.”

“Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely.”

“As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them.
Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.”

“The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.”

“Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.”

“I love him, but I am not sure I like him.”

“yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason”

“It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.”

“Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.”

“Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.”

“Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.”

“I love not man the less, but nature more”

“I never met a word I didn't love”

“Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.”

“She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.”

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”