Quotes About Love

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

Love is where you find the meaning.

on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.

I felt so terrified and so in love that I realised they – the terror, the love – were one and the same thing.

How to be kinder to yourself about yourself Think of people you have loved. Think of the deepest relationships you have ever had. Think of the joy you felt when seeing those people. Think of how that joy had nothing to do with their looks except that they looked like themselves and you were pleased to see them. Be your own friend. Be pleased to recognize the person behind your face.

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

As she switched to freestyle she realised it wasn't her fault that her parents had never been able to love her the way parents were meant to: without condition.

Una podía comer en los mejores restaurantes, tomar parte de todos los placeres sensuales, cantar en São Paulo ante veinte mil personas, recibir chaparrones de aplausos, viajar a los confines de la Tierra, tener millones de seguidores en las redes, ganar medallas olímpicas. Pero nada de esto cobraba sentido sin amor.

she wondered if her parents had ever been in love or if they had got married because marriage was something you did at the appropriate time with the nearest available person. A game where you grabbed the first person you could find when the music stopped.

So this was love. Two life-forms in mutual reliance. I was meant to be thinking I was watching weakness, something to scorn, but I wasn't thinking that at all.

Mum turned around in the passenger seat and looked at me and smiled and the smile had a slightly crumpled quality, her eyes glazed with tears. I felt it. The weight of Mum. The weight of being a son that had gone wrong. The weight of being loved. The weight of being a disappointment. The weight of being a hope that hadn't happened the way it should have.

Love was a way to live forever in a single moment

If only we could find a way to stop time,' said her husband. 'That's what we need to work on. You know, for when a moment of happiness floats along. We could swing our net and catch it like a butterfly, and have that moment for ever.

That's what starts to happen, when you know it is possible for you to feel pain you have no control over. You become vulnerable. Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from.

You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love.

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

Well, what would you say if I said that I have visited my other lives, and I think I have chosen this one?' 'I would think you were insane. But I'd still like you.' 'Well, I have. I have had many lives.' He smiled. 'Great. Is there one where you kiss me again?' 'There is one where you buried my dead cat.' He laughed. 'That's so cool, Nor. The thing I like about you is that you always make me feel normal' And that was it.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three-parts dead'. Maybe that was her problem.

The only reason I am still in this life is because of you . . .' She lunged forward and kissed him.

You can always tell if someone is kind because kindness is the sparkle inside their eyes.

loving and being loved back was a hard thing to get right, but when you managed it, you could see forever.

is about finding the right person to hurt you?

Of course, most parents love their children instantly. But I mention it here because I still find it a remarkable thing. Where was that love before? Where did you acquire it from? The way it is suddenly there, total and complete, as sudden as grief, but in reverse, is one of the wonders about being human.

When you die, the last thing you want is for your death to leak out and infect those left behind, for those loved ones to become a kind of living dead. And yet, inevitably, that often happens. It has happened to me. But I sense it is getting closer. Life. I sense it, just inches ahead of me.