Love Quotes

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

~ Victor Villaseñor

What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction.

~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

I do,” Drew admitted, his eyes devouring my body appreciatively. “But with you…I want so much more, Summer. So much more than you’re willing to give me.” He paused, “Every single touch, every single look you give me, I cherish.

~ Kailin Gow

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

~ David Mitchell

I really should be studying now, but you're much more important to me than a .50 calibre machine gun.

~ Kara Martinelli

Witch, do this for me,Find me a moonmade of longing.Then cut it sliver thin,and having cut it,hang it highabove my beloved's house,so that she may look uptonightand see it,and seeing it, sigh for meas I sigh for her,moon or no moon.

~ Clive Barker

My beloved has arrived, but rather than greeting him, All I can do is bite the corner of my apron with a blank expression- What an awkward woman am I. My heart has longed for him as hugely and openly as a full moonBut instead I narrow my eyes, and my glance to him Is sharp and narrow as the crescent moon. But then, I'm not the only one who behaves this way. My mother and my mother's mother were as silly and stumbling as I am when they were girls...Still, the love from my heart is overflowing, As bright and crimson as the heated metal in a blacksmith's forge.

~ Kim Dong Hwa

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

~ E.m. Forster

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.

~ Rebecca Serle

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

~ William Shakespeare

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

~ William Shakespeare

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

~ Barbara De Angelis

What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?

~ Rebecca Serle

To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection.Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.

~ William Shakespeare

How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.

~ William Shakespeare

Then the conceit of this inconstant staySets you rich in youth before my sight,Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,To change your day of youth to sullied night;And all in war with Time for love of you,As he takes from you I engraft you new.

~ William Shakespeare

To give yourself away keep yourself still,And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

~ William Shakespeare

I have more care to staythan will to go.

~ William Shakespeare

They are but beggars that can count their worth, But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up half of my wealth.

~ William Shakespeare

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.

~ Allan Bloom

LXXVSo are you to my thoughts as food to life,Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;And for the peace of you I hold such strifeAs 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.Now proud as an enjoyer, and anonDoubting the filching age will steal his treasure;Now counting best to be with you alone,Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure:Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,And by and by clean starved for a look;Possessing or pursuing no delightSave what is had, or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

~ William Shakespeare

Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she’s madly mated.

~ William Shakespeare

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.

~ Gayle Forman

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V

~ William Shakespeare

You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I’m concerned, they didn’t make it out alive either, so I’m sure as hell not going to go to them for advice.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If the distinction is not held too rigidly nor pressed too far, it is interesting to think of Shakespeare's chief works as either love dramas or power dramas, or a combination of the two. In his Histories, the poet handles the power problem primarily, the love interest being decidedly incidental. In the Comedies, it is the other way around, overwhelmingly in the lighter ones, distinctly in the graver ones, except in Troilus and Cressida--hardly comedy at all--where without full integration something like a balance is maintained. In the Tragedies both interests are important, but Othello is decidedly a love drama and Macbeth as clearly a power drama, while in Hamlet and King Lear the two interests often alternate rather than blend.

~ Harold C. Goddard

Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved’st him better / Than ever thou loved’st Cassius.

~ William Shakespeare

Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!

~ William Shakespeare

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Love and Non – Violence cannot heal the wounds which corruption and injustice have caused.

~ Ashutosh Naliapara

I make love like a snake disguised as an elephant and a donkey. But I mustn’t talk about sexual congress and Congress simultaneously.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

~ Silvia Hartmann

You worry too much. Because you worry not enough.

~ A.e. Kirk

I fight with you because i care. Now, when i stop fighting with you, thats when you should really start worrying.

~ Katelyn Lillis

...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...

~ John Geddes

Don’t worry about the little stuff. None of it matters. Only love matters. If you remember this, that love is always present; it will be a good life

~ Bronnie Ware

I had not the least idea of a gamekeeper's occupation being so dangerous - there had never been such a person employed on the Longbourn estate - and just as I had spent half the previous night wondering about Peter, I spent half the next one worrying about him.

~ Jennifer Paynter

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.

~ Tegan Quin

What’s so funny? (Astrid)I’m just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni