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Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.
Sep 10, 2025
I wasn't in love with Simon any more. I hadn't been in love with Simon for a long time. I was in love with not being on my own, with having someone there at the end of the day and now I knew I didn't need that. My heart was not broken over him: it was breaking for the things I had wanted from him. And I didn't want them any more.
I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.
All young lovers, whoever you are, I hope your troubles are few. All my good wishes go with you tonight. I've been in love like you.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it.
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.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
I'm so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy.
The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
What is done in love is done well.
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.
Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in relationships now and... There's only ever been... there's been people telling me they love me, but it freaks me out and I just run, run. I think I'm a bad girlfriend.
He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes." "Isn't that stalking?" Jazza said. "Legally, no," I replied. "I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Things must be felt with the heart.
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
You've been in love with someone for a decade - someone who barely knows you're alive. You've done everything, tried everything to make this person see that you're a valuable, estimable person, and that your love is worth something. Then one day you open the paper and glance at the Personals column, and there you see that your loved one has placed an ad... seeking someone worthwhile to love and be loved by.
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
I've always been monogamous - [within it] I've been in love with people, but very platonically. For me, monogamous love is about learning how to be able to trust someone completely; so you need to be able to think you can trust them. But that doesn't mean you can't have extraordinary feelings for other people and not feel guilty about them, but not necessarily go and wreck marriages and consummate, and you don't have to do all that.
I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.