Quotes About Love

The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

Larry McMurtry

My grandmother is old," Famous Shoes said. "She may want to tell me a few more stories before she dies.

Of course, children were endless work. They came when you didn't want them and had needs you didn't always want to meet. Worst of all they died no matter how much you loved them. The death of her own had frozen the hope inside her harder than the wintery ground. Her hopes had frozen hard and she vowed to keep it that way, and yet she hadn't. The hopes thawed.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

Augustus remembered his own love for Clara Allen—it had pained him and pleased him at once.

Por que siempre ha sido propio el amor que después de los besos vengan los suspiros.

Love's a terrible price to pay for company, ain't it, Matty?" Caleb said. "I won't pay it, myself. I'd rather do without the company.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There

Love was a delicious blend of warm and cold. There was comfort in making love. It solved no problems: but one could run away from problems.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.)

Unrequited love is just another addiction.

He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.

Jag ställer egentligen bara ett moraliskt krav på mänskligheten, men ett ganska strängt: att den skall älska mig.

I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you. Something that is worth preserving...

People screw up, you know. You shouldn't hold it against them. You shouldn't expect everyone to know everything you're thinking about or not getting from them. It doesn't mean they don't love you. They screw up. -Bobby

maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if we lose him too early--in the name of all the promises in the world: a new job, a new city, an old love offering us happily ever after--we may just lose that chance to be our best self.

you fill in the blanks—with stories and memories from the people who love you.

But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen

Love doesn't leave you. Not all at once. It creeps back in, making you think it can be another way, that it can still be another way, and you have to remind yourself of the reasons that it probably won't be.

Maybe we are all fools, one way or another, when it comes to seeing the totality of the people who love us--the people we try to love. [Hannah Hall]