love

"Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you."

"Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect."

"Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract."

"Napoleon made war like I make love—from a height of about 68 centimeters. (I wear platform shoes while I’m on my knees)"

"Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not."

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

"Oh Jake,"Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes,"I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."

"You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you."

"The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone."

"I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange."

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

"At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind."

"Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too."

"To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun."

"It doesn’t take a hurricane to blow out a birthday candle. Let this be a lesson in love—and cake etiquette."