Quotes About Love

Aquel chico era tan guapo que lo miraba mientras dormía. Si tuviera que resumir lo que hizo conmigo, diría lo siguiente: hizo que yo me pusiera a cantar todas la canciones malas que sonaban en la radio. Mientras me quiso y cuando dejó de hacerlo.

He keeps touching my arm, this guy. Sometimes your heart runs away with someone and all it takes is a bandanna on a stick.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I feel slightly less dread, When I am with you.

We're married, remember? Nobody's breaking up with anybody.

What Ann Druyan said: Compressed into a minute-long segment, the brain waves of a woman newly in love sound like a string of firecrackers exploding.

Do you know why I love you?" my daughter asks me. She is floating in the bathwater, her head lathered white. "Why" I say. "Because I am your mother," she tells me.

Sometimes your heart runs away with someone and all it takes is a bandana on a stick.

Caring is all we have, I think. Cynicism is just a soft form of denial.

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

My love for her seemed doomed, hopelessly unrequited. There should be songs for this, I thought, but if there were I didn't know them.

Mark Twain fell in love with his wife after he saw her picture painted on an ivory miniature the size of a fingernail.

But the smell of her hair. The way she clasped her hand around my fingers. This was like medicine. For once, I didn't have to think. The animal was ascendant.

Sometimes on the subway platform I still sway, imagining her in my arms.

Nothing is better for man than a good wife, and no horror matches a bad one.

A visitor asked the old monks at Mount Athos what they did all day and was told: We have died and we are in love with everything.

Sure, sure, I suppose I could go for someone safe," she says. "But I've never felt like this before. Never." But no one is safe, I want to tell her. Safe?

If you have not known suffering, love me.

For most married people, the standard pattern is a decrease of passionate love, but an increase in deep attachment. It is thought that this attachment response evolved in order to keep partners together long enough to have and raise children. Most mammals don't raise their offspring together, ur humans do.

If I had to sum up what he did to me, I'd say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.

The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)

There is still such crookedness in my heart. I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner. If the question is asked by someone you love, it is fair to assume that this person hopes to feature in this recollection he has called forth.

Anger looked like fireworks. Love was an indistinct blur.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.