Quotes About Love

I do love her, and that's odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.

Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have? Probably better, Lancelot said. Certainly safer.

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passionately, but he felt heavy and earth-bound. He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks. He had spurts of bravery but they were bracketed in battens of cowardice.

Because he loved true things he tried to explain.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

All we got is the family unbroke.

I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love.

I think there must have been some other girl printed somewhere in his heart, for he was a man of love and his wife was not a woman to show her feelings.

Money's easy to make if it's money you want. But with few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit—for gallantry in defeat, for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love.

A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities- never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked. Thus Kino's future was real, but having set it up, other forces were set up to destroy it, and this he knew, so that he had to prepare to meet the attack. And this Kino knew also- that the gods do not love men's plans, and the gods do not love success unless it comes by accident.

You're not clever. You don't know what you want. You have no proper fierceness. You let other people walk over you. Sometimes I think you're a weakling who will never amount to a dog turd. Does that answer your question? I love you better. I always have.

I guess she's just nuts,' he said. 'And if she's nuts, a guy's got to do nuts things. You don't think you could say the hell with her?

And he saw the right evening star reflected in her eyes, and he saw the black cloud reflected in her eyes.

Hurry home, darling, she said. Hurry home. And how's that for a man to have! When I hung up, I stood by the phone all weak and leaky and happy if there is such a condition. I tried to think how it had been before Mary, and I couldn't remember, or how it would be without her, and I could not imagine it except that it would be a condition bordered in black.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror

Tiny emerged on deck some hours later, shaken but smiling. He said that what he had been considering love had turned out to be simple flatulence. He said he wished all his romantic problems could be solved as easily.

Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.

And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow, so that when his dog died the world ended.

Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure—never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?