Quotes on Love

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.