Quotes about love

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“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”

“Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark beating heart,
I know. He'd have loved it alright.
You see?
Even Death Has A Heart.”

“The wise are wise only because they love.”

“When Love And Jealousy
Collide On The Slopes,
Winter Break Turns Deadly”

“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”

“Noah, wherever you are and whenever you read this, I love you. I
love you deeply, my husband. You are, and always have been, my
dream.
Allie”

“One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you're feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.”

“Neither sugar nor salt tastes particularly good by itself. Each is at its best when used to season other things.

Love is the same way.

Use it to "season" people.”

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”

“You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.”

“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.”

“When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.”

“I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.”

“Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.”

“So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.”

“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”

“I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own.
It relies on us to do the conquering on its behalf.”

“Make me into anything, but just love me.”

“If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.”

“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…”

“I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne!”

“People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.”

“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”

“I was jealous; therefore I loved.”

“[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.”

“An ugly, lovely town… crawling, sprawling… by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”

“He hated it as if he were about to love it—unforgivingly, irrationally, sadly.”

“I love you,” Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn’t.

“That’s what you all keep saying,” I answered. “But it doesn’t seem to get me any happier.”

“And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants.

Pants = Love”

“time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”

“We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it.”

“When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.”

“Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another’s loss of ease,
And builds a hell in heaven’s despite.”

“I love myself when I am laughing… and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”

“Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.”

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”

“I’m so damn glad I love you – I wouldn’t love any other man on earth – I b’lieve if I had deliberately decided on a sweetheart, he’d have been you.”

“i love you Ivy. I'll never stop loving you."
"I prayed for one more chance to reach you," he said, "to tell you how much I love you and to tell you to keep on loving. Someone else was meant for you, Ivy, and you were meant for someone else.”

“In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”

“Does she stay because she loves him as meat loves salt? Or does she stay because he has now promised her the kingdom? It is hard for her to tell the difference.”

“Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, all that comes between and is not of love's kind, must be destroyed. And our God is a consuming fire.”

“From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.”

“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.”

“Some people never say those words "I love you".
It's not their style to be so bold.
Some people never say those words "I love you".
But like a child, they're longing to be told.”

“I will never shame you. I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.”

“If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.”

“Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle”

“Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)”

“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”

“I love you," he said.
"I don't say it often enough. I love you.”

“She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are”

“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death.”

“The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”

“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.”

“When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again.”

“I love you. You pay my rent.”

“I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel."
- Does it get easier?
"Yes. But you'll never be the same again.”

“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried… nothing is so warming and companionable.”

“When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.”

“Why is Love more important than Faith? Because Faith is merely the road that leads us to the Greater Love.”

“She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?”

“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”

“I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.”

“When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.”

“Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.”

“I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.”

“He loved her. It was as simple and as complicated as that.”

“… no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.”

“Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.”

“true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.”

“When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.”

“Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.”

“It is not your love that sustains the marriage,
but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”

“But too much love is poison, especially when that love is not returned.”

“We knew our strengths and played up our assets. But we couldn't see what made us unique enough for someone to really love us.”

“Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.”

“Black love is black wealth”

“True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.”

“No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.”

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

“The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.”

“I know you: You’ll come find me again, you’ll come rescue me no matter what happens. You’ll come for me, and I’ll discover you all over again. I love you. I love you without the memories. I love you right now.”

“As soon as a manhas his guard up. he will not fall in love or get attached the only way he'll get attached is if you lower his guard first.”

“Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.”

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love… You can't own a human being.”

“All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That’s what love was, he decided. Love was being known.”

“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”

“Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.”

“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”

“Anybody's true nature is bullshit. There is no human soul. Emotion is bullshit. Love is bullshit.”

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.”

“I shudder at the thought of men….
I'm due to fall in love again”

“You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.”

“Hale!' Kat cried, but the boy only stared at her. 'Fine,' she conceded. 'I love your boat.'

'Ship.'

'Ship… Your ship is beautiful.”

“(Love) walks up to you, and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become.”