Being In Love quotes
202 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature."
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
"Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."
"When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again."
"Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love."
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"Hell is the suffering of being unable to love."
"The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me."
"First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love."
"What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love"
"Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with"
"Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person."
"Sometimes there's more important things in life than being in the ring, like family, like us, & being in love."
"Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace."
"Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go."
"When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of himself, who, when he or she falls in love, suddenly walks with a certain inner assuredness and confidence, a mien which seems to say, "You are looking at somebody now." For this inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not."
"Being in love doesn't mean loving."
"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
"To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness."
"When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home."
"But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people."
"Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me."
"The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves."
"Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone."
"I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive."
"The third error leading to the assumption that there is nothing to be learned about love lies in the confusion between the initial experience of ‘falling’ in love, and the permanent state of being in love, or as we might better say, of ‘standing’ in love."
