Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him. —Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me More about this quote Tags: love relationships regret church marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not. —Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming More about this quote Tags: love certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: love cynicism intellect nonsense affairs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. —J. D. Salinger More about this quote Tags: love identity girls stupidity prettiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My great-grandfather . . . came to Washington with the Union Army during the Civil War. He stopped at my great grandmother's house to get some water and she was the one who handed him the glass of water. He put his hand over hers, and then he got off the horse, and after that, they got married. —Helen Tenchi More about this quote Tags: love perception marriage water Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
During his stint as host of a show called You Bet Your Life, Groucho Marx interviewed many participants. On one occasion he interviewed a Mrs. Story, who had given birth to twenty-two children. "I love my husband," Mrs. Story said enthusiastically. "I like my cigar, too," said Groucho, "but I take it out once in a while. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: love relationships marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: love old age marriage conversation talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta? —Anita Loos More about this quote Tags: love romance food middle age fatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: love time lying dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. —Mignon McLaughlin More about this quote Tags: love others kindness people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining. —James Hillman More about this quote Tags: love imagination imagination relationship boredom sentiment duty staleness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our society, we've become myopic and obsessive about one particular kind of love: dyadic love, which takes the form of romance, sex, marriage. As a result we end up asking all the wrong questions. Books about relationships talk about how to "get" the love you need, how to "keep" love, and so on. But the right question to ask is "How do I become a more loving human being? —Sam Keen More about this quote Tags: love relationships society romance marriage sex Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? —Stephen Levine More about this quote Tags: love regret death conversation waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. —Erica Jong More about this quote Tags: love cynicism risk effort fighting subversiveness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little it mattered where you are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done to get there [imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the longer I was there, the better I felt. . . . I felt filled with love for everyone: everyone I knew and everyone I didn't know; for plants, fish, animals; even bankers, generals, prison guards, and lying politicians — everything and everyone. Why did I feel so good? Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is supposed to be if we weren't so busy trying to make it something else? —David Dellinger More about this quote Tags: love God good death prison trying resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email