Quotes on Love
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." -Miguel de Unamuno
"Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return."~Unknown
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence." ~Erich Fromm
"Whatever is done from love occurs beyond good and evil." F.N.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. ~Friedrich Nietzche
"Love is blind deaf dumb and stupid. If I ever find that little turd I'm gonna kill cupid once and for all."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
"Valentine's Day is a cruel, evil holiday which exists solely to pour lemon juice on the paper-cut hearts of the unattached."
"Sometimes i sit at home and wonder is she's sitting at home thinking of me and wondering if i'm sitting at home thinking of her-or am i just wasting my time." -Blink182 'Wasting Time'
They say love hides behind every corner, then I must be walking in circles.
"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty" ~Frank Herbert
"The world is full of fools who hold tawdry baubles before thier faces, watch them glint and shine, and give their very lives and souls to the flashy trash. I love my country, my god, my segregated neighborhood, my success, my money, my sex, my stuff, or my alma-mater and would kill anyone who shows them the slightest iota of disrespect. And, by the way, your country sucks. And so does your god, your segregated neighborhood, your success, your money, your sex, your stuff, and your alma-mater. Well, I swallow your baubles whole and vomit them back up on you! Perhaps then you may see your folly." -The Malkavian Clanbook
Jesus loves you. I don't. Get out of my way!
"I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find, I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind. Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry. Happiness I can not feel and love to me is so unreal." ~Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin. ~Doug Kenney Dorothy Law Nolte
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us. ~Roger Ebert
"The only beautiful things in life are the things you can't have"
"My feelings and I are not on speaking terms." ~J. Robert King, Vinas Solamnus
Love takes off masks we fear we cannot live without. ---James Baldwin
I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it. ---Felicity
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ---Jonathan Carroll
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ---Agatha Christie
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ---William Sloan Coffin
Wanna ruin someone's life? Tell them you love them
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ---Ingrid Bergman
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ---George Sand
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. ---Sophocles
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love. ---F. Sagan
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that is has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than these great shocks which two souls give each other in exchanging this spark. ---Victor Hugo
"The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else"
"life and love are the only things worth fighting for."
"Love is like a two way street, every time I try to cross I get run over."
"Love, the biggest hurt there is, ...brings you to the point whre you think you're invincible, then drops you like a rock, shattering your hopes, your dreams, and your will to live, until nothing is left but the sorrow and sadness - waiting for the next....."
"There is no one reason for feeling like you are dead inside, it comes from all of the little deaths we experience each day, little things that take a chunk out of our soul, like loving someone who you know you will never have. It seems that life is but a cruel joke, keeping happiness just out of our grasp."
"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but thats bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. Thats what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." -Jim Morrison
The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.
"I'm your lover, I'm your zero, I'm the face in your dreams of glass.....Lonliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me." -Smashing Pumpkins, Zero.
"What we learn here, is love tastes bitter when it's gone. Cast yourself against the lights things look dirty when it's on. Funny how it comes to past that all the good slips away, and there's no one around you can remember being good to you." -Matchbox 20, Shame.
I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander, burdened by the weight of their own sadness. They wait for a chance to set the wrong things right. Only then can they be reunited with the ones they love. Sometimes, a crow shows them the way; because sometimes, love is stronger than death. ~The Crow 2, City of Angels
"I could fill a thousand pages, telling you how I felt and still you would not understand. So now I leave without a sound except my heart shattering as it hits the ground."
"Angels kiss your eyelids when you lay down to close your eyes for the world is hollow and I have touched the sky."
"Why did you betray your own heart? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself...you loved me - then what right had you to leave me? I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine...do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh god! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" - Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights pg 148
"And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love." -1 Corinthians 13:13
"My only love, sprung from my only hate." - "Romeo & Juliet"
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies because of blinding errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, and tarnishing." - Anais Nin
Mark A. Overby: Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build this whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-out-you-apart pain. I hate love." - Neil Gaiman
"All our young lives we search for someone to love. We choose partners, change partners... all the while wondering if there's someone, somewhere, searching for us." - "The Wonder Years"
"If love proves real, and two people are meant to be together, than nothing can keep them apart." -The Crow
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up save in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. -- C.S. Lewis
When the people we love are stolen from us the thing we have to remember is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die, but true love is forever. ~The Crow
"How can you describe someone whose more than just a friend? Who you can totally feel safe around....someone who touches you and makes your body feel alive. Someone whose warm embrace enraptures your body and suffocates your soul. The one you are not lovers with but have practically been intimate with time and time again. The one that you feel as if your inner beings have met time and time again but you find out new and wonderful things about them each day. Only and souly could you say that they are and always have been your soul mate....made exactly for each other....as in to fit into the puzzle piece of the world together perfectly. You are in him...he is in you. You shall never be apart no matter the miles away as long as you both are still breathing."
Me? I'm scared of everything! I'm scared of what I saw, I'm scared of what I did, of who I am, and most of all I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you! ~Dirty Dancing
"I would rather have one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand than an eternity without it." ~City Of Angels
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end." -Benjamin Disraeli
"It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch."-a tombstone
"Love can heal the deepest wounds, but it can also create them."
"All of my life I've fought hard for the things I have wanted caught up in blindly believing the strongest survive but here in your eyes I see everything I've ever needed and I am afraid if I rush in if I move too fast I just might frighten my one chance away its easy to be strong I've done it for so long but this time I have to remember this time to get what I want I have to surrender."
"And in the end on dreams we will depend 'cause that's what love is made of."
How high can you fly with broken wings?" -Aerosmith
"When I first saw you, I was afraid to like you. When I liked you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you."
"I love you more today, than I did yesterday, but less than tomorrow."
"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end." -Gilda Radner
"It's stupid to just sit here and admire that little red haired girl from a distance. It's stupid not to get up and go over and talk to her. [stands up] It's really stupid! It's just plain stupid; so why I don't I go over and talk to her?! [sits down] Because I'm stupid."- Charlie Brown
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." - Anonymous
"If love is only a word, why doe it hurt so much when you find it isin't there?"
"A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means alot to you, only to find out in the end that it was never meant to be and you just have to let go."
I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony. ~Catullus
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality -- not as we expect it to be but as it is -- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. ~Carl Frederick Buechner
I wanted your love to be everlasting, but it isn't. And I wanted life to be an easier proposition, but it isn't. And I've changed, I've changed, i've reconsidered everything. I'm fine now, Im fine now, I've layed the barrel in my mouth and everything i've thought before I won't think anymore, I've changed... - JJG
"? down by the seashore, where the waters foam white, hang your head over; hear the wind's flight. The east wind love's sunshine, And the west wind loves night. The north blows alone, dear, And I fear the light. You've taken my heart, dear, Beyond the winds' night. The fires you have kindled Last longer than light. ?Last longer than light, dear, when the waters foam white; Hang your head over; hear the wind's flight The fires you have kindled Will last out my night. Soon I will die, dear, On the mountains' cold height. The steel wind blows truth, dear, Beyond my blade's might. ?. Beyond my blade's might, dear, where the waters foam white; hang your head over; hear the wind's flight. I told you the truth, dear, Right from the start. I wanted your love, dear, With all of my heart. Sometimes you hurt me, And sometimes we fought, But now that you've left me, My life's been for naught. My life's been for naught, dear, when the waters foam white; So hang your head over, and hear the wind's flight. So hang your head over, and hear the wind's flight." ~L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (The Towers of the Sunset)
"? white was the color of my love, as bright and white as a dove, and white as he, as fair as she, who sundered my love from me?" ~L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (The Towers of the Sunset)
Females do pursue me, if you count mosquitos.
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never thought i would look back on the laughter and cry ~Unknown
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. ~Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! ~Laurie Anderson
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! ~Tom Lehrer
"Love is when reality is better than the dream." -Unknown
"When I saw you, I liked you. When I liked you, I loved you. When I loved you, I lost you." -Unknown
"Jesus loves you (but everyone else thinks you're an asshole)." ~Olga Koussi
History is merely one damn thing after another. Love, however, is two damn things after each other. ~Unknown
The quickest way to a man's heart is not through the stomach but through his chest, with an axe. ~Anon.
The most common form of marriage proposal: "YOU'RE WHAT!?"
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. --Conrad Aiken
Kissing is a way of getting two people so close that they can't see anything wrong with each other. --Rambling Dave Sharp
Love, how it toys with us, makes utter fools of us, flogs, whips and spanks us. Listen to the voices of the unloved as they surge and retreat in the night. Whispered in empty rooms and lonely beds, the hunger of love unattained, rushing through our fingers, unstoppable, fleeting, gone. And yet, when we touch this....love....it burns us with its bright flame, it punishes and consumes. And yet we must have it. It rules us, uses, abuses, misuses. And yet, why do we always crawl back for more? --Nigel Bennett, "Forever Knight"
All my life, all I wanted was to feel loved. I've tried so hard... one angel short of heaven...
Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. / Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. --William Congreve
No one feels another's grief; no one can understand another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality, they only pass each other by. ---Franz Schubert
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ~Erica Jong
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. ~Iris Murdoch
To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. ~Nancy Mitford
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters, 1952
"It is said the deepest cruelty comes from the deepest caring." ~Terry Goodkind
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me." -Sloan Wilson
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." -Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. ~ August Strindberg
Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! ~Anon.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. ~G. K. Chesterton
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were -Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
OR: "If you love something, set it free. If it doesn't return, hunt it down and kill it." -???
"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan
"to the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world"
"it's strange how two strangers can become two best friends, and yet it's stranger how two best friends can become two strangers"
Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~Robert Heinlein
The pleasure of love lasts but a moment, The pain of love lasts a lifetime. ~French Proverb
LOVE: two vowels, two consonants, two fools. ~ Bumper Sticker
Learn from your parents mistakes - use birth control! ~ Bumper Sticker
No folly like being in love. ~Latin Proverb
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ~ Joey Adams
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton
"The supreme happiness in life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." -Victor Hugo
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? ~Lily Tomlin
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. ~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) , in a letter to Mrs. O.H. Browning, April 1, 1838
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality -- not as we expect it to be but as it is -- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. ~Carl Frederick Buechner
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. ~Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
