Quotes and Sayings About Love
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She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.
-- Alice Munro -
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
-- Alice Walker -
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
-- Alice Walker -
My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.
-- Alicia Vikander -
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
The conception of perfect service is constantly expanding and must be handled by broad and liberal minded men who put equity and fairness above gain-who put a proper valuation upon a satisfied customer as an asset running into the thousands of dollars, and who love a job thoroughly well done and get a kick out of doing it.
-- Alvan Macauley -
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
-- Ambrose -
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
-- Ambrose -
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
-- Amelia B. Edwards -
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
-- Amelia Barr -
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Amelia Barr -
...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.
-- Amitav Ghosh -
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.
-- Ammon Hennacy -
If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.
-- Amor Towles -
Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.
-- Amrit Desai -
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
-- Amy Grant -
A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
-- Amy Hempel -
Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
-- Amy Poehler -
I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.
-- Amy Tan
