Quotes About Love

always been. Just you an' me." "I saw my wife last night. In here." Hawk was talking to the floor, mostly trying to work it out in his own mind. "I saw my son... I saw Jubal... in his room across the hall." "Oh, that's why you went outside. I was wondering. You came back in smiling like I never saw you smile before

From now on, have your passions; but as for love, you need to know where to invest it wisely. It's only a woman's final love that can satisfy a man's first love.

Henry James in "The Lesson of Balzac" praised his precursor for giving his characters "the long rope," for acting themselves out. That grant of freedom to his created life was for James crucial to Balzac's success in representation of persons in the world. James saw Balzac's creation of character as ultimately motivated by love: "The love, as we call it, the joy in their communicated and exhibited

It is an act of love to say, "I believe in you as my child, and you don't need my help."

Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say "I love you." I think just the opposite—that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them.

Why? Because you wanted something, and tried to get it. You acted. You acted stupidly, but you acted, and that's the important part. And people often act stupidly when it comes to love. I know I did.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

She could marry this man, she knew, and still be captain of her soul.

Charles loved her voice. It was so soft and blurred, like pastels. It made his neck tingle just to listen to her. It gave him the same delicious feeling he had as he hovered on the brink of sleep and this feeling - until now - had been the single most pleasant feeling in his life. It was the voice that coloured everything he now thought about her. It was shy and tentative and musical. Sometimes he did not manage to hear the words she said, but he did not let on about his deafness.

Anytime I fall for a dame like you I hope that somebody will take me outside an' cut my head off quick because I would rather be tied up to a coupla wild alligators than get myself hitched on to you.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.

Remember what we wrote? 'And just as I cannot imagine how I survived the past without you... I cannot imagine a future without you.' Remember? Well, I'm the future without her, buddy boy, and I can tell you right now that it's not something you're going to relish.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly

There is no higher "law" to be obeyed than the law of love. That, at the end of the day, is what it means to follow Jesus.

To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.

was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it.

a common burden so many Christians have unwittingly carried, namely, that watching over us is God, an unstable parent, who is right off the bat harsh, vindictive, at best begrudgingly merciful, and mainly interested in whether we've read and understood the fine print; if not, God has no recourse but to punish us.