love

"They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life."

"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."

"When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them."

"You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature."

"Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."

"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

"I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on."

"You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul."

"When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love."

"Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love."

"Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day."

"I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'"

"Love is so unconditional; love liberates; love is the reason why I do what I do, and so I think it is the greatest gift we have."

"With me, what you see is what you get. Yes, call me naive, but I love life. I am happy, and for that, I make no apologies. I do like to see the best in people, and when someone is nice to my face, I tend to believe them."

"But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow."

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."

"But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."

"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."

"The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one."

"You looove me. (holds out arms) You love me this much."