Love Quotes

I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)

~ Anonymous

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.

~ Jeanette Winterson

I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

~ Criss Jami

They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.

~ Jane Austen

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

~ John Williams

None of us can choose where we shall love...

~ Susan Kay

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

~ Rita Mae Brown

For she had eyes and chose me.

~ William Shakespeare

I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try.

~ Claudia Gray

With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.

~ Osho

I'm not crying because of you you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.

~ Steve Maraboli

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

~ Lauren Oliver

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

~ Leo Tolstoy

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?I don't know. I don't think so.Then how do people recognize each other?I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?

~ R.j. Palacio

So I’m your huntress and thief?” His hands slid down to cup the backs of my knees as he said with a roguish grin, “You are my salvation, Feyre.

~ Sarah J. Maas

You didn’t think I’d let you go alone, did you?”“No, but I’m grateful that I had you with me.”“Grateful is all I’m going to get, isn’t it?”“What else were you hoping for?”“Adoration, devotion, affection, infatuation, or just plain finding me irresistible.”“Sorry, Don Juan. You’ll have to live with my undying gratitude.

~ Colleen Houck

There is a desire within each of us,in the deep center of ourselves that we call our heart.We were born with it, it is never completely satisfied,and it never dies.We are often unaware of it, but it is always awake.It is the Human desire for Love.Every person in this Earth yearns to love,to be loved, to know love.Our true identity, our reason for beingis to be found in this desire.Love is the why of life,why we are functioning at all.I am convincedit is the fundamental energy of the human spirit.the fuel on which we run,the wellspring of our vitality.And grace, which is the flowing,creative activity, of love itself,is what makes all goodness possible.Love should come first,it should be the beginning of,and the reason for everything.

~ Gerald G. May

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

~ Shannon L. Alder

...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.

~ Emily Giffin

For there is no friend like a sisterIn calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray,To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands

~ Christina Rossetti

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

~ J.k. Rowling

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

~ Taylor Swift

Aelin took a step forward. One step, as if in a daze.She loosed a shuddering breath, and a small, whimpering noise came out of her - a sob. And then she was sprinting down the alley, flying as though the winds themselves pushed at her heels.She flung herself on the male, crashing into him hard enough that anyone else might have gone rocking back into the stone wall. But the male grabbed her to him, his massive arms wrapping around her tightly and lifting her up. Nesryn made to approach, but Aedion stopped her with a hand on her arm.Aelin was laughing as she cried, and the male was just holding her, his hooded head buried in her neck. As if he were breathing her in.Who is that? Nesryn asked.Aedion smiled. Rowan.

~ Sarah J. Maas

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

~ Courtney Love

Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

~ Tarryn Fisher

I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different kinds of need at once. I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you'll be in the decades to come. I love you for being the answer to every question my heart could ask.

~ Lisa Kleypas

When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word… when it ceases to be just a measurement of time…but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts... that is a reflection of true love.

~ Steve Maraboli

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

~ Orhan Pamuk

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Nothing in life is worth,turning your back on,if you love it.

~ Albert Camus

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity.Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process shedsits fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyaltyand divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity,it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth andtime–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off tofind the next real thing.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

~ William Blake

And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

~ Shannon Hale

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

~ Philippa Gregory

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Love as thou wilt

~ Jacqueline Carey