Love
Quotes - Love is a temporary madness
“When
he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― Madeline
Miller, The Song of Achilles
“Love
is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to
imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling
lost and confused.”
―
Paulo Coelho
“I
could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the
second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you
walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to
vanish when I was with you.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“Life,
he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end
there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to
make the whole thing worthwhile.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“Love
is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it
subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots
have 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 promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire
to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night
imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am
telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool
can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
―
Shawn Slovo, Captain Corelli's Mandolin filmscript
“You
couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made
it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person
you loved.”
―
Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
“And
then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right
touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.”
―
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“When
I am with you, we stay up all night.
When
you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise
God for those two insomnias!
And
the difference between them.”
―
Rumi
“Tears
shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure
heart.”
―
José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love
“Every
one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with
you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“A
purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is
around to be loved.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
“Sometimes
when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
It's
dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe
the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real
to me than anything.”
―
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
“A
DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN
THE DICTIONARY
Not
leaving: an act of trust and love,
often
deciphered by children”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Letting
go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing
that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
―
Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and
Learning
“Was
it hard?" I ask.
Letting
go?"
Not
as hard as holding on to something that wasn't real.”
―
Lisa Schroeder
“I'm
oxygen and he's dying to breathe.”
―
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
“Yes,
I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen
capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand
being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind,
my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Respect
was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
―
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“But
in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours,
as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
―
Madeline Miller, Circe
“Sometimes
it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common
with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
―
David Byrne
“Art
and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that
are not you.”
―
Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“To
love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
―
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“I'm
not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is
that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person
has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“One
day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little
consequence.”
―
Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever
