Love Quotes
"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, Half of a Yellow Sun #love
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun #love
"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."
“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.
I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.
— Jane Austen, Persuasion
"'Maybe you'll fall in love with me all over again.'
'Hell,' I said, 'I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?'
'Yes. I want to ruin you.'
'Good,' I said. 'That's what I want too.'"
'Hell,' I said, 'I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?'
'Yes. I want to ruin you.'
'Good,' I said. 'That's what I want too.'"
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“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View
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5. "Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches."
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride (1987) - IMDb
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6. "She could feel herself through him. Her skin. The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke."
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." Wikipedia
7. "I need all the time I have and a thousand times more than all the time I have and most of all I'd like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you, for breathing in you."
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Originally published: 1952
8. "This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
9. "Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same. ... If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (So, Wuthering Heights is probably more crazy than romantic. But this is a beautiful line.)
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (So, Wuthering Heights is probably more crazy than romantic. But this is a beautiful line.)
Source: Artificial Eye via IMDB
10. "I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you. ... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pin trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams. ... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight."
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
— Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
11. "And my body slopes toward yours no matter how level the ground."
— Rosmarie Waldrop, from "On the Vertical" in Reluctant Gravities
— Rosmarie Waldrop, from "On the Vertical" in Reluctant Gravities
12. "Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done."
— Sappho (Fun fact: The Ancient Greek poet Sappho wrote romantic odes to both men and women, and the word lesbian derives from Lesbos — the island where she was born.)
— Sappho (Fun fact: The Ancient Greek poet Sappho wrote romantic odes to both men and women, and the word lesbian derives from Lesbos — the island where she was born.)
13. "She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time."
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
— Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love
14. "I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Source: 20th Century Fox
15. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
16. "I don't know what they are called, the spaces between seconds — but I think of you always in those intervals."
— Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
— Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
17. "'I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But 10 minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle compared to the high seas before a storm."
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride (This book merits two entries.)
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride (This book merits two entries.)
18. "My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
my love as deep. The more I give to thee,
the more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
my love as deep. The more I give to thee,
the more I have, for both are infinite."
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Source: Paramount Pictures via IMDB
19. "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
— Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII (Here's the original Spanish.)
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
— Pablo Neruda, Sonnet XVII (Here's the original Spanish.)
20. "I kissed her. Her eyes were shining up at me like two blue stars. It was like being in church."
— James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
— James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
21. "If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
— A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
— A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Source: Facebook
22. "Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."
— Plato, Symposium (In the Symposium, Aristophanes tells a story in which human beings were originally four-limbed, two-headed creatures who were later cut in two by Zeus. Love is what happens when we find our other halves. This is also what that song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch is about.)
— Plato, Symposium (In the Symposium, Aristophanes tells a story in which human beings were originally four-limbed, two-headed creatures who were later cut in two by Zeus. Love is what happens when we find our other halves. This is also what that song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch is about.)
24. "I will love you as a drawer loves a secret compartment, and as a secret compartment loves a secret, and as a secret loves to make a person gasp, and as a gasping person loves a glass of brandy to calm their nerves, and as a glass of brandy loves to shatter on the floor, and as the noise of glass shattering loves to make someone else gasp, and as someone else gasping loves a nearby desk to lean against, even if leaning against it presses a lever that loves to open a drawer and reveal a secret compartment. I will love you until all such compartments are discovered and opened, and until all the secrets have gone gasping into the world. I will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled."
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
— Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters
25. "Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own. In pain and sickness, it would still be dear."
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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26. "I think, if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
27. "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new."
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
28. "When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are to become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No, don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!"
— Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
— Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
29. "It's always so. Each time you happen to me all over again."
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
— Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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