Love
Quotes - There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people
“Love
is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling,
there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling
comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does
not involve judgment and decision.”
―
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
“I
know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his
mother.”
―
Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters
“I
have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the
tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And
beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go,"
she says. "He waits for you."
In
the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their
hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out
of the sun.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
“I
won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.”
―
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
“Fuck
You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word cheating. As if
this were a card game, and you sneaked a look at my hand. Who came up with the
term cheating, anyway? A cheater, I imagine. Someone who thought liar was too
harsh. Someone who thought devastator was too emotional. The same person who
thought, oops, he’d gotten caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Fuck you.
This isn’t about slipping yourself an extra twenty dollars of Monopoly money.
These are our lives. You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a
cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.”
―
David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
“To
me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid.
To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To
me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before.
FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS
is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even
though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. It’s FEARLESS to have faith
that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye
to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. I think
it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with
someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things
they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s
FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. I think loving someone
despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the
bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being
alright…That’sFEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to
believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince charmings and
happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is
FEARLESS.”
―
Taylor Swift
“Is
it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect
understanding of another?
We
can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person,
but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince
ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything
important about anyone?”
―
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The
bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance,
or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or
perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I
would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.”
―
Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
“I
almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such
days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever
contain.”
―
John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“I'm
about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a
load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word "busy" is the
relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in
fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't
care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want.”
―
Greg Behrendt
“If
you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with
herpes.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk
“There
is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
―
Vincent Van Gogh
“Someday
you're gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of
grieving. You'll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but
your life was changing...”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert
“If
only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it,
mistaking it for laughter. ”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“Yet
each man kills the thing he loves
By
each let this be heard
Some
do it with a bitter look
Some
with a flattering word
The
coward does it with a kiss
The
brave man with a sword”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
“The
only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they
ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only
thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't
invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
―
Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
“sometimes
you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just
need to know what you're going to do next!”
―
Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
“Romance
is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”
―
Elinor Glyn
“Sometimes
when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to
remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on
the train, the kisses in the arena.”
―
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
