Quotes About Love

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

the emphasis Scripture (COL. 3:19) places on instructing husbands to care for and respect their wives just as Christ did the church leaves no room for excusing a husband's violent and abusive behavior toward his wife

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

From the body of the loved one's simple, sweetly colored flesh, which our animal instincts urge us to desire, there springs not only the wonder of a new bodily life, but also the enlargement of the horizon of human sympathy and the glow of spiritual understanding which one could never have attained alone.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

The first time she saw Jag Silvertree she was watering the garden, and her clematis got soaked as she dreamt of melting into his face. The second time she saw Jag she knew she would never feel his angular jaw against her thighs. For Jag Silvertree carried around with him a hurt that she figured would stand out in a field of wounded soldiers.

Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.

When someone you love, dies, it's as if they leave you with half shares of your life together. The person you were in their eyes dies with them.

Breathe next to me. And I will capture a piece of your soul along with mine.

Poems] train and exercise the imagination. Trained imaginations are what we need most at a time like this. That is what will enable us to reach across cultures and understand each other, to think of new models and modes of organization that might work better, and to wage peace, because the love of beauty is deeply related to the love of peace.

There are generous and inventive ways to enjoy words and to reclaim them as instruments of love, healing, and peace. All of us who speak, read, write, and listen to each other have opportunities to do that and to foster the kinds of community that come from shared stories and surprising sentences.

Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

the words of Pyotr Stephanovich come into my mind: You must love God because He is the only one you can love for Eternity. That sounds very profound to me, and tears come into my eyes whenever I say it. I never heard anyone else say it. But I don't believe in God and if I did I couldn't love Him/Her/It. I couldn't love anyone I thought had created this world.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I've ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

There are lines of yours I know by heart. There are scents of yours soaked in my skin.

When I was in love with her, with a lover's tendency to mythify the beloved did I know her better than I do now, when we know our limits? Now

What your mother left undone, women who are not your mother may do. Women who are not your lover love you.

My mom got it fixed for me," he said softly.

Marriage changes everything.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?