Love Quotes - The things we love destroy us
“Holding
Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding
something complete, and completely alive.”
―
Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
“I
wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one
they're supposed to be with.”
―
Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“Even
After
All
this time
The
Sun never says to the Earth,
"You
owe me."
Look
What
happens
With
a love like that,
It
lights the whole sky.”
―
Hafiz
“Absence
diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the
candle and fans the bonfire.”
―
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims
“When
someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you,
even at unlikely times.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“to
love life, to love it even
when
you have no stomach for it
and
everything you've held dear
crumbles
like burnt paper in your hands,
your
throat filled with the silt of it.
When
grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening
the air, heavy as water
more
fit for gills than lungs;
when
grief weights you like your own flesh
only
more of it, an obesity of grief,
you
think, How can a body withstand this?
Then
you hold life like a face
between
your palms, a plain face,
no
charming smile, no violet eyes,
and
you say, yes, I will take you
I
will love you, again.”
―
Ellen Bass
“I
want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a
ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“You
think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that
because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and
opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You
think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad
word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love
shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain?
They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the
clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The
clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let
him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing
to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you
don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was
absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who
falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he.
You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it
means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why
should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value
yourself.”
―
Toni Morrison
“You’ll
get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love
is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the
person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never
closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to
grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape
of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
―
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“By
you, I am forever undone.”
―
Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing
“Sometimes
love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”
―
Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange
“If
someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat
them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
―
Johnny Depp
“When
you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is
impossible to stand again.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Without
you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the
crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
“The
course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in
blood,
O
cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
Or
else misgraffed in respect of years,
O
spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
Or
else it stood upon the choice of friends,
O
hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
―
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“How
do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I
love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My
soul can reach”
―
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“I
love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the
soul.”
―
Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“The
things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
