All Quotes By Tag: Love

“Every time I close my eyes, it’s like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there’s no you, except in my dreams tonight”

“Often you don’t know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

“Nice costume,” he said. “Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours.”Amusement curled his mouth. “If you don’t like it, I can take it off.”

“But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.”

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?”

“Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much? ”

“I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such panic?”

“To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.”

“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”

“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

“You were a summer gift, one I’ll always treasure. You were a dream I never wanted to wake up from. You opened my eyes to things I’ll never really see. You’re the best thing that will ever happen to me.”

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“I really don’t even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.”

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

“Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.”