Quotes About Love

He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His

Want medelijden is de ergste vijand van de liefde.

Young love ends for hundreds of different reasons," Gertie said and sighed. Ida Belle nodded. "But usually, life strangles it to death.

Walter asked me to marry him again," she said finally. Gertie gave me a knowing look. Bingo. She'd called that one correctly. "I'll bake him a chocolate cake," Gertie said. "It's his favorite. Might take some of the sting out of the rejection." Ida Belle looked over at us. "I didn't say no.

relationships you choose to make are far more important than the ones that are forced on you. She's always saying 'you have to love your family, but you don't have to like them, or want to spend time with them.

Romance and love are two different things.

Mildred was old-fashioned in a lot of ways, but family wasn't one of them. Blood didn't make someone love you. It didn't make someone treat you right.

Let's go home," he said. Home. That word meant something completely different now than it had before. It meant everything.

it's not children who extinguish the flame of desire—it's the adults who fail to keep the spark alive.

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

I think, for one's single book, one would be wise to choose Mansfield Park or Emma rather even than Pride and Prejudice. "Wisdom is better than wit," as Jane Austen told Fanny, "and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side." People who begin by loving Pride and Prejudice, may end by rereading the later novels more often.

Among siblings, deep affection and aggravation generally go hand in hand.

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

James Digweed left Hampshire today. I think he must be in love with you, from his anxiety to have you go to the Faversham Balls & likewise from his supposing that the two Elms fell from their grief at your absence. Was it not a galant idea? It never occurred to me before, but I dare say it was so.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his messages, for his Love at least--his Duty I suppose was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced however that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of Tea.

We are all fools in love

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

There is no charm equal to the tenderness of heart.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.