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Quotes About Love

Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments and fills your dreams.
~ Vikas Swarup
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.
~ Vikas Swarup
Till now, my conception of love has been based entirely on what I have seen in Hindi films, where the hero and the heroine make eye contact, and whoosh, some strange chemistry sets their hearts beating and their vocal chords tingling, and the next you see of them they are off singing songs in Swiss Villages and American shopping malls.
~ Vikas Swarup
The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.
~ Vikas Swarup
What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But in love our hearts have mingled like red earth and pouring rain.
~ Vikram Chandra
Then what in your opinion is a good story?' 'What it's always been, monkey,' Ganesha said. 'One dhansu conflict. Some chaka-chak song and dance. Grief. Love. Love for the lover, love for the mother. Love for the land. Comedy. Terror. One tremendous villain whom we must love also. All the elements properly balanced and mixed together, item after item, like a perfect meal with a dance of tastes. There you have it.
~ Vikram Chandra
He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.
~ Vikram Chandra
From the first moment; she said; From the first moment, you forgave everything I was and did. And this, this is nothing, because you will be here always... Remember. Death us nothing.
~ Vikram Chandra
I'll give you nothing," Sanjay said, "Because you give us nothing, you cannot save us you cannot protect us." We ask nothing from you," Kala said, "But remember the stories you have been told, see that we are also your fathers, participants in your birth, and so we love you.
~ Vikram Chandra
Dying in a battle is much better then living after being rejected on love, because one time death is much better then dying every day"
~ Unknown
Unclaimed To make love with a stranger is the best. There is no riddle and there is no test. – To lie and love, not aching to make sense Of this night in the mesh of reference. To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day, And understand, as only strangers may. To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart Preferring neither to prolong nor part. To rest within the unknown arms and know That this is all there is; that this is so.
~ Vikram Seth
Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have escaped from poverty have no escape from these. What makes life bearable is love-to love, to be loved, and-even after death or parting-to know that you have loved and been loved.
~ Vikram Seth
May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.
~ Vikram Seth
All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.
~ Vikram Seth
Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?
~ Vikram Seth
What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.
~ Vikram Seth
Man without life companion is either god or beast.
~ Vikram Seth
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love.
~ Vikram Seth
Voices Voices in my head, Chanting, 'Kisses. Bread. Prove yourself. Fight. Shove. Learn. Earn. Look for love', Drown a lesser voice, Silent now of choice: 'Breathe in peace, and be Still, for once, like me'.
~ Vikram Seth
A home without a mother is a desert.
~ Unknown
A smile that lights the face will also warm the heart.
~ Unknown
A successful marriage depends upon two things: to find the right person and to be the right person.
~ Unknown
Anyone who says that they love you, wait and see what they do for you.
~ Unknown
Both mother and God are verb, not noun.
~ Unknown