Quotes About Love

Ah, even sitting here on my front porch, looking out over the fields, there's a part of me aches to see him walking. To conjure him out of the sunlight in the distance. The shape of my dad, I can almost see it, crossing the field toward me. Come to put his arm around me, reach out an arm to my mother as well, and I'll close my eyes and just breathe.

There was one true thing. Madeleine. The relief was beautiful. He fell asleep imagining her hands in his hands, holding one another in the darkness.

You've loved with intensity and passion, and have learned to hide your heartache, learned to press your handkerchief back into your pocket and pretend that you are okay.

Surely that couldn't be the end of her first kiss? It seemed sort of pointless, to do that once without doing it again.

t was beautiful, being there with Elliott. It was like there was nothing except him and me. I remember his palms, his chest, his chin, but it was like we were more than just our bodies. As if our essence was there in the darkness.

How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?

Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose. It is comparatively but a small number in any age of the world, and in any nation, whose passions of ambition, hatred, or revenge become so strong as that they love bloodshed and war. But these few, when they once get weapons into their hands, trample recklessly and mercilessly upon the rest.

The case of Mark Antony affords one of the most extraordinary examples of the power of unlawful love to lead its deluded and infatuated victim into the very jaws of open and recognized destruction that history records.

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage.

The struggle to exist, to not disappear in this moment, is the advancing root of the struggle to exist throughout the whole passage of time. We need to help each other in this struggle. You by asking, I by struggling to respond. This is the law of love, which rules the universe.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Love as thou wilt

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

Et là, secouée par les sanglots, je me suis trouvée acculée, trop tard, bien trop tard, à me rendre compte que moi aussi j'avais aimé, que je pouvais souffrir, et que, en somme, j'étais humaine.

Love can open an invisible door.

Love is but a frailty of mind when 'tis not with ambition joined." -Sir Thomas Seymour

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe.

Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could give you the universe, but I'm not going to in case you get hurt? There's all this stuff out there, all these planets, all these wonders, but I want you to stay at home and work in a shop?

The funerary banquet celebrates a life, often well lived, and the victory is in overcoming and accepting the change that death brings; honoring a loved one at death becomes victorious because it renews the living.

But in this life, he is dog. His life is ocean, stick, ball, sand, grass, ride in the truck, sleep by the bed, look deep into the eyes of humans, lure them outdoors, greet them with a burst of joy when they come home, love them. Fill this brief life with more. And more.

There is no explanation for love. But love is all that matters, isn't it?