“I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.”
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Love Quotes — page 237 of 1037
“I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...”
“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
“It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.”
“A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.”
“Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.”
“A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: 'Love is what you've been through with somebody'.”
“I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.”
“My love runs deeper than the wounds.”
“No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.”
“You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.”
“Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.”
“To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade. Before the story ended, he'd removed the iron sliver I thought I'd die from. I can't remember the tale, but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer. And I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness he laid against my face.”
“When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me.”
“She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.”
“A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.”
“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.”
“I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
“I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.”
“I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.”