Love Quotes

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

~ Ahdaf Soueif

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.

~ Rachel Vincent

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

~ P.d. James

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

~ Beverly Cleary

Love yourself, you won’t regret it ever.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about on the path of life. (Taken for a ride)

~ Erik Pevernagie

The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

~ Ted Hughes

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

~ Martina Boone

In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.

~ William Congreve

Death changes everyone....It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life. Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often than not, it makes you regret what you've lost.

~ Tara Sivec

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

~ Lynsey Addario

I never want to regret the kisses I missed.

~ Lynsey Addario

You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.

~ Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.

~ Samuel Beckett

You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone.

~ Tessa Dare

Love passed me by and I failed to get the plates.

~ Amanda Mosher

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

~ Joanne Harris

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

~ Virginia Woolf

The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

~ Charlaine Harris

It all feels so different than it did yesterday. Is it because I'm aware of your feelings now? Or is it something else? Is it that...I know...what love is?

~ Rei Tōma

I am your little ram,burying his muzzle in thick grass of your pasture,folded by you at night, herded by day,a dedicated dog nipping at my hocks.The day will come for you to drawthe bright sickle of the moonacross my wooly throat.Do it with love, without regret.

~ Mark Wunderlich

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.

~ Ransom Riggs

As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. For a moment he allowed himself to feel regret at the thought of never building a cottage by the river with Trevanion. Or living the life of a simple farmer connected to the earth. Or traveling his kingdom, satisfying the nomad he had become. To be Finnikin of the Rock and the Monts and the River and the Flatlands and the Forest. To be none of those at all.Yet he also knew that to lose her to another man would be a slow torture every day for the rest of his life.

~ Melina Marchetta

They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! Love one another__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

That night, when you kissed me, I thought you did it because you were drinking. All I could focus on was getting you home before you did something you’d regret in the morning. I didn't want to be your regret, Serenity. My heart couldn’t handle it. Shit, it's been two years and my heart still can't handle the fact that we don’t talk anymore.

~ Melyssa Winchester

There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.

~ Jitendra Bhardwaj

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

~ Gabrielle Zevin

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

~ Orson Scott Card

Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he resented the moment that came in its place. Even if the moment was beautiful and was something he valued, and made him who he was. He could not help but also long for that other life in which he lived with Della, even if she abused him.

~ Amanda Coplin

I prefer to love the one my heart has chosen for me, and I won’t regret it

~ M.f. Moonzajer

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

~ Joe Hill

We find that one person in life that will stand by us through everything, support us, love us regardless of yourself. That one person that will stand by your side through everything. Grab onto that person with everything for if you don't then one day you will look to your side expecting him to be there and you will find that he is not. So don't take the one for granted that makes you his life. If you do then he will remove you from his...

~ Albert Besselaar

For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one’s time, not in getting to know what one’s love really is, but in making it possible to meet next day. When one abandons love one seeks not to know one’s grief but to offer to her who is causing it that expression of it which seems to one the most moving. One says the things which one feels the need of saying, and which the other will not understand, one speaks for oneself alone. I wrote: 'I had thought that it would not be possible. Alas, I see now that it is not so difficult.' I said also: 'I shall probably not see you again;' I said it while I continued to avoid shewing a coldness which she might think affected, and the words, as I wrote them, made me weep because I felt that they expressed not what I should have liked to believe but what was probably going to happen.

~ Marcel Proust

He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.

~ Jessica Fortunato

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.

~ Jenny Han

Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle

~ Leah Braemel

I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

~ Kaui Hart Hemmings