Quotes about love

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“In case you still haven't figured it out, he loves you. Your tiger will be back in the morning, and you can thank me anytime. Now, do I have to paint another picture for you, or do you think you can take it from here by yourself without screwing up?”

“Vows of friendship and love are stronger”

“But yield who will to their separation,
My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future´s sakes.”

“Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.”

“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”

“The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?”

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

“If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.”

“You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.”

“I would do anything for you. Anything."

With that, he pushed his way out… and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.

Actions did mean more than words.”

“Then he almost but didn't say the two sentence he'd been meaning to say for years: part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you”

“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”

“… most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.”

“The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.”

“My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne”

“Love only brought me lonliness and horror.”

“You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.”

“The seeds of love have taken hold and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”

“Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.”

“Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.”

“Love made us partners in narcissism, and we talked ceaselessly about how close we were, how perfect our connection was, like we were the first people in history to ever get it exactly right.”

“He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken.”

“Oh, seek, my love, your newer way;
I'll not be left in sorrow.
So long as I have yesterday,
Go take your damned tomorrow!”

“I once loved a woman, a child I am told
I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.”

“Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.”

“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”

“This is the danger of loving: No matter how powerful you are, no matter how many kingdoms you rule, you cannot stop those you love from dying.”

“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you—
It takes life to love Life.”

“I've loved him forever, but he can never be mine.”

“She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”

“When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.”

“Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.”

“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”

“Let your heart look
on white sea spray
and be lonely.

Love is a fool star.

You and a ring of stars
may mention my name
and then forget me.

Love is a fool star.”

“I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.”

“I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.”

“It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.”

“I love humanity but I hate people.”

“There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”

“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

“one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.”

“Just tell me you don't love me, and I'll let the matter drop."
"What?"
"What I said. Just say, 'Rai, I don't love you and I never will'. It's that simple."
"Raisa, this is getting us nowhere."
"Say it!”

“But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.”

“And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.”

From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved.

(Ivy and Rachel)”

“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”

“For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”

“The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.”

“I love you dammit,"she brushed her lips teasingly against his.

"How much?" He made a slight sound, as if the soft kiss had affected him intensely.

"Without limit. Beyond forever.”

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

“That's how love got lost… when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.”

“"Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
"Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”

“We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each others bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you. I could work, you would not be poor. I would help you.”

“Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting
If I could hear his heart softly pounding
Yes, and only if he was lying by me
Would I lie in my bed once again.”

“Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks.”

“We all know that Beauty grows to love the Beast. She grows to love him, despite what her family might think ⎼ for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart.”

“I love you: You imagine hearing the words from someone not related to you, someone not your best friend, but when someone you love, someone you dream about, actually says them, it makes your body melt and your breath get caught in your chest.”

“I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.”

“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”

“I still love you. I will always love you, and that is all that matters. I will forgive you anything, and I will forgive you this.”

“He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”

“I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.”

“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”

“.. he may love you, he may miss you, but ultimately he's just not that into you.”

“Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.”

“He thought of his remembrance of Jordan, thought of how it hurt to even look at Isabelle and Clary. Without memory, they were lost. And nobody wanted someone they loved to be lost.”

“Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“Magnus hoped if he ever went mad like that himself, so mad that he poisoned the very air round him and hurt everyone he came into contact with, that there would be someone ho loved him enough to stop him. To kill him, if it came to that.”

“Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.”

“Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.”

“So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.”

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”

“Thank you, Shay. (Syn)
For what? (Shahara)
For looking into the eyes of nothing and seeing a man you could love. (Syn)”

“Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say.
Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.”

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”

“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”

“And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long as he lived kept his promise, it wasn't because he was stubborn or even loyal. He couldn't help it.”

“But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.”

“I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.”

“I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.”

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

“Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!”

“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.”

“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”

“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”

“It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.”

“Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.”

“she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.”

“I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.”

“It's shocking the things we call love.”

“Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.”

“But I begin to fancy you don't like me. How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me. (Catherine Linton, nee Earnshaw)”

“‎When she looked up at him, it was suddenly easy for her to imagine that her fears were pointless. That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.”