Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.
I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
The truth was…he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.
The Fate didn’t move. He didn’t let the girl go. He looked as if he never would. He continued holding her as if he could return her to life with the force of his will. His eyes were wet with blood. Red tears fell down his cheeks and onto hers. But the girl didn’t stir.
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
If there was one thing a former sniper could do well, it was wait. Patiently. Quietly. Without a sound. Barely a movement. Just him, a quiet mind and his breath.
I thought I was going to sweat five years before I’d feel like this.”
“I wanted it as much as you did. I’ve just got a hell of a poker face” I smiled, pressing my lips against his.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You’ve ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can’t say any of that.
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.
The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don’t care a damn as to what happens to the other person.
Can’t you just like a girl who likes you back?’
‘None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.
True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn’t it never was
What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was
what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but
also by, as I once believed, a true friend.
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you’re gorgeous, you’re fearless and unpredictable, you’re a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.
The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?
What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
That’s the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people’s.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.
I love you so much that nothing can matter to me – not even you…Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference
Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
I love you more than songs can say, but I can’t keep running after yesterday…
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God’s love and the love of God.
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Life is like a game of chess.
To win you have to make a move.
Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated along the way.
We become each and every piece within the game called life!
My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
You think I’m cute?” He said thinkly, pulling on her hand.
She was glad he couldn’t see her face. “I think you’re…”
Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.
You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
Look at me, chica.” When she does, I repeat, “Eres hermosa.”
“What does it mean?”
“You’re beautiful.
It’s usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.