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Quotes About Love

I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death...
~ James O'Barr
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
~ James O'Barr
The emotional equivalent of jet lag is the end of a love affair and yet you, foolish and besotted lover, won't let go. You're still keeping time by his sun and moon, waking when he wakes, and sleeping only when he closes his eyes.
~ James Oseland
A slave can have life only by giving it away. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (Jesus)
~ James P Carse
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children. The character of one's parenting, if it is genuinely dramatic, must be constantly altered from within as the children change from within. So, too, with teaching, or working with, or loving each other.
~ James P. Carse
We can love only what cannot be fully recognized, what cannot yield its mysteries to thought
~ James P. Carse
Infinite sexuality does not focus its attention on certain parts or regions of the body. Infinite lovers have no "private parts." They do not regard their bodies as having secret zones that can be exposed or made accesible to others for special favors. It is not their bodies but their persons they make accesible to others.
~ James P. Carse
Each moment is not the beginning of a period of time. It is the beginning of an event that gives the time within it its specific quality. For an infinite player there is no such thing as an hour of time. There can be an hour of love, or a day of grieving, or a season of learning, or a period of labor.
~ James P. Carse
Infinite lovers conform to the sexual expectations of others in a way that does not expose something hidden, but unveils something in plain sight: that sexual engagement is a poiesis of free persons. In this exposure they emerge as the persons they are. They meet others with their limitations, and not within their limitations. In doing so they expect to be transformed-and are transformed.
~ James P. Carse
Infinite players cannot say how much they have completed in their work or love or quarreling, but only that much remains incomplete in it. They are not concerned to determine when it is over, but only what comes of it.
~ James P. Carse
All we have left, when all is said and done, is the content of our character and our most cherished relationships.
~ James P. Krehbiel
This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.
~ James Patterson
What I said yesterday didn't mean anything! I love everyone in the flock! Plus, it was the Valium talking!" "Uh-huh. You just keep telling yourself that. You looove me." Max: (tries to punch him) "Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it." Max: (screams and runs into bathroom)
~ James Patterson
You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much.
~ James Patterson
In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.
~ James Purdy
For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.
~ James Purdy
She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
~ James Purdy
One fine day you've got to give your body to somebody, or turn into a fully-fledged zombie.
~ James Purdy
Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.
~ James Purdy
To Jesus it is inconceivable that someone would dare ask God for full and free forgiveness while remaining as an unforgiving person towards others. The forgiven forgive and the forgivers are forgiven.
~ James R. Beck
Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.
~ James R. Cook
Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.
~ James R. Cook
To the future young folks of Lowenwood: I wish you all love, hope, happiness, And a long and healthful life. May your understanding of mankind Be broadened through your association with And, I am sure, your love of Lowenwood.
~ James R. Lowenstine
If a public figure is willing to accept things as they are, he will avoid being loved or hated very much, and he will die in his bed of old age--if he hasn't had the decency to put an earlier end to his life by committing suicide.
~ James R. Mills