Quotes About Love

Her husband was a mystery she no longer had the energy to unravel. Anyway, it was known to be the first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love.

Where we are from there are no crimes of passion because there is no passion.

It is about love and dead poets and wholenut peanut butter.

Isobel held my hand. The glabrous underportion of her thumb stroked my skin. This unnerved me even more. I wondered why she was touching me. A policeman grips an arm to take you somewhere, but why does a wife stroke your hand? What was the purpose? It wasn't the touch Cosmopolitan had talked about, and it certainly didn't boost my mood. Did it have something to do with love? I stared at the small glistening diamond on her ring.

Moments ago she had been in the garden with Ash and Nora and Plato

So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?

He loved you as much as you loved him, and maybe he didn't want you to see him die. You see, cats know. They understand when their time is up. He went outside because he was going to die, and he knew it.

After a while, with a dog on your lap, you realize there is a necessity to stroke it.

There comes a moment in every life when we realise there is no land beyond the ice. There is just more ice. And then the world we know continues again. You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love. The time ahead of you is like the land beyond the ice. You can guess what it could be like but you can never know. All you know is the moment you are in.

Don't ever be afraid of telling someone you love them. There are things wrong with your world, but an excess of love is not one

And I felt an incredible excitement at being able to witness the love reemerge inside her, because it was a total, prime-of-life love. The kind that could only be possible in someone who was going to die at some point in the future, and also someone who had lived enough to know that loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

There are things I have experienced that I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset, jazz, a hot dog, a Bloody Mary. That is the nature of things. History was – is – a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards. But you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

She realized it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.

I miss you,' she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It's a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.

Esquivaré en mi vida, milagrosamente, el dolor, la desesperanza, la pérdida, el desamor, las penurias, la soledad, la depresión? No. Pero ¿quiero vivir? Sí. Sí, desde luego Mil veces, sí.

Ain't no choice in love and life

There was never a single moment, though, where I would have said—or felt—that I didn't love her. I loved her totally. Friendship-love and love-love.

Moments ago she had been in the garden with Ash and Nora and Plato, a garden humming with life and love, and now she was here.

Bertrand Russell wrote that 'To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that

Albert Camus said, "There is no love of life without despair of life.

Mett? is about accepting yourself as you are.

They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters. If you stop mourning them, and start listening to them, they still have the power to change your life. They can, in short, be salvation.