Quotes About Love

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

He were to take back His Spirit and withdraw His breath, all humanity would turn to dust (Job 34:14)! He doesn't, because of the extravagant and passionate love He has for His creation; and nothing, not all powers of heaven or hell, can ever separate the love of the Father from the children He created (Romans 8:38–39).

Sometimes the best love is tough love.

Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.

This is the bread: body, soul, exquisite tenderness. We are all we have. — Mary Jo Bang, from "Café Edgar," Apology for Want (University Press of New England, 1997)

perhaps there is only one distinction that matters: those who are learning to love their neighbors and those who remain indifferent to them

I don't know what you hope for in a husband, but if it is to be loved … well, I think it would be very easy to fall in love with you.

Michael is easier to understand—he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable—to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy

behind the anger, she saw that he loved her

I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear.

The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy. . . . She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.

I love you," he gasped. "For always." "And I love you," she whispered as tears filled her eyes. He rolled on his side and drew her close, his arms sheltering against the storm that pounded on London. The sky itself wept because they loved each other, and it wasn't enough. As

Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.

Isn't a mistress supposed to care about her lover?" she asked softly. Their glances met, and Nicholas felt something shift deep inside him, creating a moment of strange vulnerability. This woman could hurt him badly if he wasn't careful.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience," Kirkland said.

Entretanto, mesmo o fogo mais ardente deixa apenas as brasas mais amenas. Bodas verdadeiras são construídas sobre valores e interesses comuns.

If only I could start again, I would do everything differently. I would try to win your love through kindness rather than compel it by force, and if I failed, I would accept your will and wish you joy on your own path.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

That's either powerfully romantic

Mary Jo Putney

Joseph Campbell said that love is the burning point—the stronger the love, the greater the pain. If he's right, maybe we're better off without it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous sonnet. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways....

Intimacy was a web spun of many strands, and each small submission on her part was a point won for him.

The moment was like a tear in the fabric of their love play; underneath, the dark waters of past and future anguish lent poignancy to everything they said and did.