Love Quotes

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

~ Kahlil Gibran

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist nor can it be hidden where it truly does.

~ Anonymous

Love conquers all.

~ Virgil

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be destroyed

~ Cassandra Clare

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Anna, you miss him.” “All the time. I still can’t believe he’s gone.” The words come out in a whoosh, tasting funny in my mouth. No matter how many times I say them, they still feel like a garbled, impossible language. My chest hurts, and I have to hold my breath to keep from inhaling a deep sob. “He was more than your best friend.” I nod absently, forgetting myself for a moment, forgetting that I’m talking to Jayne and not my journal. “I – I mean, he was like a brother to me. You know, like Frankie. Well, she’s the sister. I mean–” Jayne reaches for my hands across the table, shaking her head softly. “Sweetheart, when you say Matt’s name, you have the same look in your eyes that he’d get whenever he’d say yours.

~ Sarah Ockler

I loved laughing with him, loved that he could make me laugh.

~ James Patterson

Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space. It made Ove feel as if his chest was slowly rising out of the ruins of a collapsed house after an earthquake. It gave his heart space to beat again.

~ Fredrik Backman

Do you know what made me fall in love with you? George asked suddenly. Anne shook her head, puzzled that he should ask her this now. I heard you laugh, down the hall, just before I got to Spanish class that first day. I couldn't see you. I just heard this fabulous laugh, like a whole octave, top to bottom. And I had to hear it again.

~ Mary Doria Russell

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.

~ Lisa Kleypas

The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life - that was what life demanded of you - surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin-deep love that exacted remorseless penalties.

~ A.e. Coppard

Don't hold on too long;to which does not belong, Don't shed a tear; for all the pain that's gone,Create a new;from the wisdom of the past, Open your heart wider, as storms do not last.

~ Nikki Rowe

It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.... Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances... Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them (who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves); it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack.

~ T.h. White

A surrendered day is a good day.

~ Danielle Boonstra

We’re all broken. We all have cracks. It’s not about making it through life in one piece it’s about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don’t shatter.”Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next Surrender story

~ Riley Murphy

I love you, I’ve loved you for years and I’ll love you for years more. It’s not something I can fight, it’s not something I want to fight.

~ Somi Ekhasomhi

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

~ Melina Marchetta

Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.

~ Parker S. Huntington

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

~ Bell Hooks

Provide a safe place for people to be their 100% self, this world is already guarded and fearful, trained to keep walls up and throw away the keys. A harden heart is no pure reality and for too long, we have all stood to allow it; so instead of excusing mimisfortune, let's bathe eachother in compassion and grow beyond what we've been taught

~ Nikki Rowe

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfastsin the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that willcome to find us soon, if we don’t find it first.

~ Veronica Roth

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.

~ Veronica Roth

Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be.

~ Margaret Atwood

Love is the perfect safety, or the perfect weapon.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When you close to me, my heart has created a vibration of the precise Carrier frequency to send all deep information about me to you

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I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

~ Georges Bataille

I welcome monsters into my bedand set a place for them at breakfast,leave sugar out for their coffeegoddamnI’ve always been so good at loving monsters

~ Fortesa Latifi

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

~ Ilsa J Bick

Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her, had made coming to terms with her inner monster that much more difficult to bear.

~ Samantha Young

I pictured love as a big hairy giant with a dead fish in his mouth. Grizzly bear claws and his heart half out of his chest cause it’s too big and the lungs have to fit. He never stops walking. Over mountains. Through the desert. On top of icy lakes. Past huge cities. And he hunts and kills for you and always comes back with plenty to eat.

~ Adam Rapp

...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...

~ John Geddes

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

~ Mathias Malzieu

She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and bit her bottom lip. I found it to be such an erotic gesture that it aroused me. My eyes began making love to her in the dark. Unseen hands passed over her curves, quietly descending...trembling at her great beauty. I didn't even know her, but I wanted her. My gaze danced over her every curve, from her nose and lips, to her breasts and hips, surreptitiously. She had no idea of my thoughts. Shadow sex.

~ Rae Hachton

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

~ Jeanette Winterson

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...

~ Meher Baba