Latest Quotes

“Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision.”

— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for.”

— Anonymous, The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for.

“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, I love you. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'”

— Maya Angelou, The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who’s in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It’s like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven’t seen in a long time.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.”

— Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

— C.S Lewis, God In The Dock

“The paint doesn’t move the way the light reflects, so what’s there to be faithful to? I am faithful to you, darling. I say it to the paint.”

— Richard Siken, The Way The Light Reflects

“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness,…”

— Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin

“A soulmate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“An essential part of actualization is recognizing your spine, its exact longitudes and latitudes, its corresponding weaknesses where the algae grows.”

— Claire Bowman, A Serious Desert

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“When love is not madness it is not love.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca, goodreads.com

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were ar…”

— Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil

“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”

— David Byrne, goodreads.com

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

“I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

— Shana Abe, goodreads.com

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the…”

— C.S Lewis, The Four Loves