Quotes About Love

Seeing Seb's jeering face, it came to her that Seb had always loved her the way most people bear a grudge.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?

Love is like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. ... We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children .... [p. 15]

But who can say why two people become a couple, that small principality of mutual protection and regard? Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. Sitting still, we are as daring as gladiators.

Antonina wondered if humans might use the same metaphor and picture the war days as a sort of hibernation of the spirit, when ideas, knowledge, science, enthusiasm for work, understanding, and love—all accumulate inside, [where] nobody can take them from us. Of

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos—a cult of two with fallible gods.

How could anyone reconcile the agony of the Holocaust with Hasidism, a dancing religion that teaches love, joy, and celebration?

A perfect balance is possible to imagine, but impossible to reach, so one is always trembling along an arc from too excited to too bored and back again. Everything we love most—be it sweetheart or flower—looks majestic because it seems to be trembling out of balance. While

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding

Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.

Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say I love you with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you.

All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table.

If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she's done something abominable, do you stop loving her?

What's loved, lives.

Love never gives up, never loses faith and is always hopeful and endures every circumstance.

Riley reached out and took Sarah's hand.

Then he looked beyond the ever-shifting alteration to study the stillness of her expression. He knew his camera could not capture this - that some things were only truly seen by the human eye. This was one of the images of his lifetime. He simply exposed his retina and let love burn her flickering, shimmering, absorbed face onto his soul.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry. Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair.