Quotes About Love

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

You may have heard that your grief journey's end will come when you resolve, or recover from, your grief. But your journey will never end. Soften, yes, but end, no. People do not "get over" the death of a pet.

Plato wrote about one version of the concept of soulmates all the way back in the year 380 B.C. In his mythological text Symposium, he says that human beings originally had two faces, four arms, and four legs. They lived in joy because they were happy and complete. But then jealous Zeus came along and split them in two, and ever since, people have spent their lives searching for their other halves.

This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you.

What's happiness really all about? How will I find lasting love and contentment? Can I find it in a relationship with a man? Is there such a thing as a healthy relationship between two men? How can I find real purpose and passion in my life?

the deeply held, sinister belief that perhaps HIV is physical evidence of our own unloveableness.

We all hope for love, enjoy it and desire it, but expecting and demanding it of others fouls up a good relationship.

In reality, we use our love to get the love we need.

Spying came to him as making love comes to other men. It is his belief, in fact, that his father may have had relations with the Okhrana, the czar's intelligence service, though his murder by the Turks was haphazard—simply one act in a village slaughter. But Avram knew them, whether they were Turkish Aghas or British officers, he always understood how they worked, where their vulnerabilities lay.

when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

The German philosopher Nietzsche said that there are many more unhappy marriages than unhappy people. It isn't lack of love which makes for unhappy marriages, but lack of friendship within the marriage. Friendship is far more demanding than marriage, which is, after all, only a contract dealing with property and inheritance (from 'Bell of the Desert' by Alan Gold)

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.

All families are silly in their own way.

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not discernment. There are times indeed when Christian charity demands that one speak forcibly.

Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow.

I've grown accustomed… to her face.

Thank heaven for little girls!For little girls get bigger every day.

Get me to the church on time!

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

According to "Clement," when the Christians talked about loving your enemies, their neighbors had been interested. But when they found that the Christians didn't do what they said, they dismissed Christianity as "a myth and a delusion." From Clement's perspective, Christians had to embody the message if the churches were to grow.

Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?