I Love You quotes
121 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other."
"Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be."
"My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite."
"You are the best thing that's ever been mine."
"--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink."
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"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
"I love you more than my own skin."
"To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing."
"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone."
"There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night."
"The most important things are the hardest to say"
"here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"
"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
"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."
"One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with."
"Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but the loyalty never fades."
"Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved."
"Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object."
"I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me."
"Only love has the ability to put you in that state of bliss"
"Don't fall in love rise with it"
"I never loved you any more than I do, right this second. And I'll never love you any less than I do, right this second."
"I love you so, But why I love you, I'll never know."
"I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much."
"I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship."
