Love Quotes

Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.

~ Stephen King

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.

~ Richard Dahlstrom

I love my mother.My mother loves my dad.Those two facts are undeniable.I want my father to live.I want him to fight to live as long as he can.My mother wants to let him pass.She does not want him suffering anymore.She says that I am not there in the middle of the night at home, when he begs her to let him die.I say that he should not be taking the medicine that the doctor is prescribing, that it made Mike Tyson want to eat his opponents young.

~ Johna Passaro

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

~ Denis De Rougemont

...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...

~ John Geddes

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

~ Victor Hugo

...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

~ John Geddes

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

~ John Green

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...

~ John Geddes

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

~ John Geddes

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

~ John Geddes

...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...

~ John Geddes

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because I can't understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that make my world seem suddenly unsafe.

~ Paulo Coelho

Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.

~ Paulo Coelho

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster. So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self — struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence — you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

~ Ted Hughes

Without your wound where would your power be? It is your very remorse that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In love’s service only the wounded soldiers can serve.

~ Thorton Wilder

He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her.But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

~ Guillaume Musso

In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in which I allow myself to be pruned and wounded. Love simply cannot exist without this painful renunciation of myself, for otherwise it becomes pure selfishness and thereby ceases to be love.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

~ Adriana Trigiani

Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.

~ C. Elizabeth

The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out the media's insistent portrayal of Christianity and feel grateful that he isn't as deceived as the masses who really swallow the garbage. Ignorance is ultimately how people put themselves down, and the mere Christian who knows what entails the mere Christian is ultimately free from such.

~ Criss Jami

There is nothing about you to be embarrassed about

~ S.c. Stephens

Do not let your confidence or love be easily removed or frightened by the rage of a warrior

~ Ronie Kendig

Don't do anything stupid, they said. Well, it's now or never, I suppose, and stupidity and confidence run a fine line.

~ Rebecca Harris

Bravery wasn’t in protecting myself from everything, it was in daring to trust, daring to love, daring to be me. Sometimes being brave meant letting go.

~ Emory R. Frie

I usually can’t stop babbling, just to fill space, but with Julienne, I can see the appeal of just being. Julienne is quiet, obviously, but that’s because she can say what she means to in so few words. She has a commanding presence that’s hard to ignore. Julienne doesn’t seem to feel the same urgency other people do. Everyone else, myself included, is constantly vying for a space to occupy, just for the sake of it. But when Julienne does share, it’s incredible. She has an actual opinion on everything, not just something to say, and I want to hear about all of them.

~ Pega Rose

Always trust yerself, lass. There's not a soul in this world that has a heart like yers. Plenty o' smart people here, aye, but logic ain't always the best way to a decision. Can ye remember that? -Alban Dewberry

~ E.s. Lowell

Yes, I was a badass all right. And I no longer felt like I needed someone, but instead WANTED someone to share this newfound badassery with. I deserved the best. Anything else wouldn't do.

~ Becky Ruhter

SOUL SHINEYou know that thingYou do so well,That little sparkYou hideIn the dark,That you thinkNobodyKnowsAboutButYou?Well,Did you knowThatThere'sA sheenThat you beam,When you talkOr doAnything,That everyoneKnowsAboutButYou?

~ Suzy Kassem

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

be a woman of confidence and self-respect, give a man a reason worth fighting for.

~ Nikki Rowe

The secret to happiness, peace, and self-confidence is to forgive yourself and forgive others.

~ Debasish Mridha

The closer he was the less confident I was.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

You shouldn't want to be like everyone else. Then you wouldn't be like you.

~ Cristina Henriquez

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.

~ Stephan Labossiere

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

~ Toni Morrison

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

~ Thaddeus Golas

Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength.“I’m so glad you’re here,” I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. “I know everything’s fineif you’re here.”I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn’t too sure of anything anymore.

~ James Patterson