Famous Quotes

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

~ Sigmund Freud

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

~ Stephenie Meyer

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.

~ Shannon L. Alder

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

~ Jodi Picoult

You said move on, where do I go?

~ Katy Perry

Infantile love follows the principle: I love because I am loved. Mature love follows the principle: I am loved because I love. Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

~ Erich Fromm

Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!

~ C. Joybell C.

Don't you know that love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is: it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime's talk is over.

~ Brian Moore

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

~ Steve Martin

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

~ Edith Hamilton

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

~ Richelle Mead

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

~ Richard Matheson

The thing is, that world doesn't exist. All growing up means is that your realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.

~ Elizabeth Scott

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

~ Amy Carmichael

Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

~ Khaled Hosseini

That's what I love about Aibileen, she can take the most complicated things in life and wrap them up so small and simple, they'll fit right in your pocket.

~ Kathryn Stockett

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

~ Oscar Wilde

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

~ Alice Walker

Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

~ Haruki Murakami

I believein love at first sightbut I will always believe that the peoplewe lovewe have loved before.Many, many, many times beforeand when we stumblethrough grace and circumstance and that brilliant illusion of choiceto finally meet them again, we feel it fastereach time through.The one glance that set life alightis two sets of two eyesstaring through the layersof lifetimes and stolen glancesand first kisses and hands held;the brace against the weight and unrelenting tideof waiting.I believein love at first sightbut am not burdened with the misconceptionthat it's a first sightat all.

~ Tyler Knott Gregson

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.

~ Jodi Picoult

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

~ Mitch Albom

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

~ Tallulah Bankhead

I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

~ Simone Elkeles

I’ve been working hard to become the kind of man she needs, the kind of man she already believes me to be.

~ Colleen Houck

Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.

~ Jess Rothenberg

Does that count as an argument? Can we kiss and make up now?”It was only half an argument.”“Fine. Then, you kiss and I’ll make up.”I laughed until he effectively shut me up with his lips.

~ Colleen Houck

You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules.She smiled, beautiful and golden in the late morning light. “Not as much as I love you.”“Oh, man. This is my dream come true: having an ‘I love you more’ debate. Here, I’ll start. I love you more. Your turn.”Sydney laughed and opened the door. “I’ve taken debate classes. You’d lose to my logic.

~ Richelle Mead

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness.

~ Hannah Harrington

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

~ Jodi Picoult

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

~ Nikki Giovanni

Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the things that one tames,' said the fox. 'Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.''What must I do, to tame you?' asked the little prince.'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

~ Jim Valvano

I cut myself because you wouldn't let me cry.I cried because you wouldn't let me speak.I spoke because you wouldn't let me shine.I shone because I thought you loved me...

~ Emilie Autumn

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

~ Jodi Picoult