Quotes About Love

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

It made me love them more because I knew the day would come when I would also be unrecognizable to myself.

I kept thinking, confusing myself, and then I stopped and listed all of the things I was sorry for- weakness of character, rebelliousness, being disrespectful to my parents, touching Gabe and letting him touch me. Wanting to be loved too much. But my desires weren't that unreasonable, and why was my body made to want things it shouldn't want?

All right, but I don't think I should have to beg for something that will be beneficial to all of us. It doesn't show much love

Men who really love their wives don't cheat on them.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Grow up, Brett baby, I would share a lot of things with a lot of people, money, clothes, bed and board, even my last crust I'd be willing to share, but one thing I won't share is a man. You'd better believe it.

Keep your warm hearts, your gentleness, and your courage. These will do just as well as magic.

Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Give us a song to cheer        Our weary hearts,               a song of home,        And friends we love so dear.

Marriage, however, is not for the consumer; marriage is for the committed.

Am I beautiful? It is for you alone. Say that you love me, for without you I cannot live.

His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too late I am here within your cloak, I who never of my own will would have denied you anything. Time and death and change are unforgiving, and love lost in the time of youth never returns again.

The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.

Plato, in his opinion, had committed too much to love.

You may think I have been rather quick to decide I am in love. But he is a clear kind of person, about whom one has to think clearly.

The gods, in kindness to mankind, have put in most men's hearts the wish to be loved and honored, even when they greatly wish for power. Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.

Love is the true food of the soul. But the soul eats to live, like the body– it mustn't live to eat...The soul lives to do!

He was not analytical enough yet to have discovered that there are certain loves, and certain phases of love, which bring perfect happiness only in their pauses and intervals, as water grows clear when one's progress has ceased to stir it.

Todavía no era lo suficientemente analítico para darse cuenta de que hay ciertos amores, y ciertas fases del amor, que solo producen la felicidad perfecta en sus pausas e intervalos, igual que el agua se vuelve cristalina cuando el avance de uno deja de removerla.

As i was beginning to understand, this kind of love was foreign ground to him. I may add that he never did, as far as I know, accept a suitor.... Sometimes indeed I asked myself whether he lacked the capacity for loving men at all; but I liked him too well to offend him by such a question.