Love
Quotes - If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly
“When
love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when
his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions
may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may
shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love
crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for
your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest
branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake
them in their clinging to the earth......
But
if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it
is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's
threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all
of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but
itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love
possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And
think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs
your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself."
But
if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and
be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of
too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to
bleed willingly and joyfully.”
―
Kahlil Gibran, Le Prophète
“You
have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince”
―
E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey
“I
sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God
declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
―
John Henry Newman
“In
youth, it was a way I had,
To
do my best to please.
And
change, with every passing lad
To
suit his theories.
But
now I know the things I know
And
do the things I do,
And
if you do not like me so,
To
hell, my love, with you.”
―
Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
“Eventually
something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the
floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you:
you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor
crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would
happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place
where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
―
Richard Siken
“If
you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would
brighten up.”
―
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“Let
yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
―
Rumi
“I
know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know
it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget.
Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you
of him.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Making
love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not
merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for
copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the
desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
―
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Even
more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the
pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head
to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave
someone the power to break you”
―
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“If
there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it
walls, and we will furnish it with soft, red interiors, from the inside out,
and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's
felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and
I have tried everything that does.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
“Good
night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That
I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“When
I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves
to be loved at all.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
“We
are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who
love us.”
―
Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts
“Hearts
are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal,
you're never what you were before".”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels
“Anxiety
is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning
man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you
with his panic.”
―
Anais Nin
“Love
is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
―
Mitch Albom
“I'm
like you,' he said. 'I remember everything.'
I
stopped for a second. If you remember everything, I wanted to say, and if you
are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready
to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and
there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then, just this once, turn to me,
even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me
when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my
gaze, and call me by your name”
―
André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
“Moments,
when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.”
―
Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
“There
is always something left to love.”
―
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Listen
to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when
you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project
them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because
it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food
itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
―
Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“Spending
time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
“Each
of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by
ourselves”
―
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
“The
human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
―
Scott Westerfield
“Do
what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“We
are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and
fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no
true loss.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
“O
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny
thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is
montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man
What
is in a name?
That
which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,
So
Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he
owes without that title,
Romeo,
Doth thy name!
And
for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.”
―
William Shakespeare
“Afterward,
I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our
friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of
Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater
kiss of all time.”
―
Rick Riordan
“It
is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”
―
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
“That
is — your friend?"
"Philtatos,"
Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“Owning
our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running
from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as
giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most
vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we
discover the infinite power of our light.”
―
Brene Brown
“It's
not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
―
Mother Theresa
