Best Quotes on Love

Maybe that's what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting they'll use it to heal you instead.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

I'd love to promise a lifetime to you. I just don't have one to give.

No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.

My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love.

As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.

After a lifetime of wanting to be loved, she didn't think she could bear it if it finally happened just before she was about to die.

Love each other or perish

I have loved this world in ways it could never love me back.

The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways

Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

What you love too violently finishes by killing you.

But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love?

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Real love begins when convenience ends.

The measure of love is not how you feel, but how you act when you don’t feel it.

Words of love are free, but their absence costs everything.

Love’s greatest act is choosing to stay when leaving feels easier.

People fall in love not because they see someone perfect, but because they see someone who makes them feel perfectly seen.

Listening is an act of love disguised as silence.

If no one loved, the sun would go out

When we can do nothing else, we can still love, without expecting any reward or change or gratitude

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love

For small creatures such as we, the vastness of the universe is bearable only through love.

I could die for you, but I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

Do small things with great love.