I Am Not Meant To Be Loved Quotes

#1. I loved the way he touched me, like he still couldn't believe I was there and might disappear at any moment. I even loved that he looked at me with sadness in his eyes sometimes, because I knew it meant that he was struggling with things in his mind but letting his heart win.

Melanie Harlow

#2. But I think sometimes happiness just meant living. Being present. Being alive. Being surrounded by those you loved.

Paige Weaver

#3. We weren't meant to be loved in parts, but as a whole.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Of course I loved him.' I walked toward the window. 'We were best friends.'
'You know that's not what I meant.'
'You don't know what you mean,' I said. 'Because you know nothing about love.

Amber Dermont

#5. You are worthy. You are meant to love, and to be loved.

Cassie Graham

#6. I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Was it really? Better to have trusted and been deceived? Better to have shared your soul with another human being, only to find that honor meant nothing to him?

Kathryn Johnson

#7. I couldn't let him go.
I didn't want to let him go.
Letting him go meant acknowledging that he would never come back. And I just couldn't. I needed him too much.
I loved him too much.

Rachel Higginson

#8. I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!

Caitlin Moran

#9. Say it, Christa! Dammit, was I imagining things, or did you say that you loved me?" "I - " She paused. "I said it!" she whispered. "And you meant it?" She lowered her gaze and then her head. "I meant it.

Heather Graham

#10. I had an unconscious, vague sort of understanding that God loved me, but the love of God is meant to be a powerful force in our lives, one that will take us through even the most difficult trials into victory.

Joyce Meyer

#11. Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Barry had done it with her, the girl I loved, and it had meant nothing to him; Tanya would die and no one would care; and there were billions of bodies alive on earth and they would all be buried and ground into dirt; and Picasso was a master at age sixteen and I was a perfect shit.

James Franco

#13. Neither of us seemed able to be close to
anyone. Not even each other. Closeness
meant the one you loved the most would
cause you the most damage. How did you
unlearn that? It was woven deep between
every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it
out.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. Time meant nothing.
She loved him in an instant.
She would love him forever.

Ellen Read

#15. Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love
all kinds
was really all about.

Sarah Dessen

#16. And what it meant was we would be together for many more Christmas's because we truly loved each other, heart to heart. Not based on how we looked or how some of the things we do appear stupid to the other person but how we cared for each other. Deep down in our core.

E.Z. Friedel

#17. That was what it meant to be loved
there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost.

Scott Russell Sanders

#18. I know how strong you are, but even the strongest sword needs a steady hand in battle. I swore to stand by your side, through all life's challenges, and I meant it. I don't care what me father, or anyone else, thinks. I will always be there for you when you need me. I love you, Trevelyan.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

B.B. King

#20. I was here for Meghan. Because I loved my princess and I wanted her to be happy. Even if her happiness meant she was with someone else. Even if that someone else was my arch rival. I wanted her to be happy.

Julie Kagawa

#21. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache ... The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

Brene Brown

#22. I loved him, every inch of his being, but i realised one day; if loving him meant losing me, than loving him was not enough anymore.

Nikki Rowe

#23. So for fifteen years she'd been hiding her love for a man who had been hiding his love for her. That meant she'd betrayed the man who loved her.

Brent Weeks

#24. If she'd ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared ... that was different. He'd done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.

Rachel Caine

#25. When Conrad Fisher told a girl he loved her, he meant it. A girl could believe in that. A girl could maybe even bet her whole life on it.

Jenny Han

#26. Sometimes it hurts to look at you, I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.

Jenny Han

#27. I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways.

Ella Henderson

#28. He closed his eyes against the surge of emotion. This is what she meant when she said no one else mattered. She knew the truth about them and it was enough. God. He loved this woman with everything he had.

Lorelei James

#29. But we were madly in love! I didn't even consider leaving her because of her ghost vagina. She meant everything to me. I loved her this much! (That means infinitely).

Carlton Mellick III

#30. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

Sarah Dessen

#31. Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone - in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.

William H Gass

#32. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small.
My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.

Kim McMillen

#33. a woman with a lover's impatience with the whole world, a woman who feared when she did not get what she wanted that it meant she was not loved by creation itself; her need for success at seduction was like her need for dinner or breakfast. When

Alexander Chee

#34. When I said I loved you, I didn't mean for a week, or maybe a year, I meant always, in the good times and the bad, through thick and thin. I'm playing for keeps here, Mags.

Sherry Gammon

#35. I loved that phrase: soul mate. We asked Grandma what it meant and she said, 'Two people who understand each other without talking about it. Two halves of a whole.

Elizabeth Wein

#36. I loved the sound of words, even if I was not entirely certain what all of them meant

Neil Gaiman

#37. What is it?
Nothing. I had a bad dream.
What did you dream about?
Nothing.
Are you okay?
No.
He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.
I was crying. But you didnt wake up.
I'm sorry. I was just so tired.
I meant in the dream.

Cormac McCarthy

#38. Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.

William Morris

#39. Will had loved the snow, the cleanness of it, the quiet, the sense of peace it brought, had loved it even though winter meant hard chores.

Sandra Dallas

#40. I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Pete Sampras

#41. I loved him, you know, but I have a theory about love. I think that, however good it is, some love isn't meant to be for ever.

Cecelia Ahern

#42. You are a story worthy of being told,
A person made to be loved,
With a life meant to be lived.

Nadia Hasan

#43. Opinion. Love meant being brave, otherwise you had already lost your own argument: the man who couldn't tell a woman he loved her was, by definition, not worthy of her.

Nick Hornby

#44. I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

Brenda Lee

#45. I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved them, and if I had a chance to protect them from the people who wanted to destroy them then I had to take that chance even if it meant I would never see them again.

Andrew Klavan

#46. His dithering seemed silly. He was home, and home was Jude. He loved him; he was meant to be with him; he would never hurt him - he trusted himself with that much.

Hanya Yanagihara

#47. People, places and experiences aren't meant to be labeled and judged, they are meant to be loved and appreciated, since deep down inside, the nature we all share is love, light and happiness.

Luminita D. Saviuc

#48. I never really knew her," I said. "But you loved her," Ida answered, and again I wasn't sure if she meant that as an accusation or comfort. Was it less important or more important to know someone than to love them?

Nancy Richler

#49. She loved one of them most of all.
And this one loved her back. He loved her back so hard that even the things that weren't special about her became special: the way she tapped her pencil on her teeth, the off-key songs she sang in the shower, how when she kissed him he knew it meant forever.

Maggie Stiefvater

#50. We should not expect everyone to be tough and not feel anything when offended. No one is meant to hate and be hated - we are all meant to love and be loved.

Auliq Ice

#51. In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Allison Pearson

#52. He said, You know what Oscar Wilde said - women are meant to be loved, not understood. Applies to both of them, darling. And I nodded, although it seemed to me that I was going to be a woman too and I would like it if someone thought they should understand me.

Amy Bloom

#53. I have loved and i have lost and im starting to believe; its ok. Sometimes what we "think" is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly "meant" for us. And if i have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; i am content in knowing the greatest love i will ever experience, hasnt even begun yet.

Nikki Rowe

#54. I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

Corey Feldman

#55. I really loved her, I'd do anything to protect her. Even if that meant setting her free. My

Denise Grover Swank

#56. She protected me. We had the souls of each other. We loved in some realm where the natural and the preternatural meant nothing.

Anne Rice

#57. I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

Brittany Snow

#58. The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was, and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public ... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.

John Travolta

#59. I was not meant for this world. I don't know. All I know is, I love, and I am not loved. I do not know happiness. I know despair, loneliness, and longing.

Candy Darling

#60. And you know what else I used to love? I loved to watch you get into your car and drive away - just because it meant you knew exactly what you were doing, and because you always did it so well.

Richard Yates

#61. I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

Karen Allen

#62. I saw you.
I held you.
I wanted you.
That's what I came back to tell you. I loved you before I met you, and I loved you more the moment I held you. And I never meant to leav you so soon.
I never would have left you.
Simon, Simon.
My rosebud boy.

Rainbow Rowell

#63. Like an echo in the wind, love had come to him a second time and he was more than grateful it had. It meant risking again the loss of the woman he loved, but there was no help for it. He could not live without her.

Regan Walker

#64. He'd always enjoyed the slow, sexy build of foreplay, loved women's bodies and all the mysterious, amazing things they could do, but with Lacey, he couldn't detach. Kissing meant he had to touch. Touching meant he wanted to crush her under him. Getting her under him meant he had to be inside her,

Anne Calhoun

#65. Not your distress. Never that. I loved - I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.

Julio Alexi Genao

#66. Home is meant to be a place, but for me Dec was my home. He was where I felt secure and loved, and time did nothing to diminish that. No matter what.

Sean Kennedy

#67. How he had loved Christine more than he had understood, that sometimes one forgot what it meant, really, to love, the way the tide of a marriage advances and retreats, .

Kalotay

#68. God. No wonder it was so easy. He's been bleeding since he was a baby. He just never told anyone. How do you even know it hurts after all that time? Because you loved me, and I knew what it meant to feel.

Amy Lane

#69. Everything I thought I knew about what it meant to be a man was stripped away. What remained was what it meant to be a man who loved a woman as much as I did. To be a human being experiencing this life in all its ugliness, its beauty, its pain and hate; good and evil; love and death.

Emma Scott

#70. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Julia Quinn

#71. Deep in the recesses of her mind, she knew they were probably watching. They watched everything, after all.

Let them watch. Let them see what it meant to be human. To live.

Let them see what it meant to love, and be loved in return.

G.S. Jennsen

#72. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?

Fiona Mountain

#73. This was how life was meant to be. It was scary at times, but you had to trust in the ones you loved to see you through the madness of it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#74. Hey, Lou!" she yelled. "I meant to say to you. Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know. I'm pretty sure even he would tell you that.

Jojo Moyes

#75. She loved him for doing things like calling her such a goof. He said it with such warmth and affection, as though her being silly meant something good, instead of how her other boyfriends had felt about it - that being goofy or silly made her a scattered flake who didn't fit into their career plans.

Charlotte Stein

#76. To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fleeting touches that meant I loved her.

Maggie Stiefvater

#77. Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

Arne Glimcher

#78. There's something beautiful and very circular about passing by something that was important to the person you loved, or touching something that once meant something to him - that brings me some peace.

Nate Berkus

#79. Youre not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up.

Chris Colfer

#80. We're not made to say goodbye. God didn't make us that way. We're eternal beings meant to live with him and those we love forever. So when we have to part with a loved one for a while because of death, it hurts.

Lynette Eason

#81. If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

Melissa De La Cruz

#82. I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.

J.D. Salinger

#83. What Alex and I shared was preternaturally right. I couldn't give him up no more than I could give up breathing. Did that mean that I loved Charlie any less? No. It just meant I couldn't be with him.

Tammy Blackwell

#84. I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon ... But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them ... My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.

Gifford Pinchot

#85. I had to prove that what he believed wasn't true. Prove that he was the total of everything he had done and not the dark things he was ashamed of, and I would do so because I loved him and accepted him for who he was, for all his faults. That was what love meant. Love fostered courage.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#86. He watched their faces, and he knew each meant desperately what she said because they loved each other, and deep inside surely each knew the words were false, that the true words were those unspoken.

Margaret Craven

#87. I loved the sound of the words, even if I was not entirely sure what all of them meant.

Neil Gaiman

#88. You took something from me that wasn't yours, Hardin. That was meant for someone who loved me, loved me truthfully. It was his, whoever he is, and you took that...

Anna Todd

#89. I did love 'Dirty Sexy Money' quite a lot. I loved my tenure at 'Scrubs' quite a lot. 'ER' might have been my favorite guest star thing. 'We Were Soldiers' meant a lot to me.

Bellamy Young

#90. The man that is meant to love you will have a million questions about you, but none will ever ask your value.

Shannon L. Alder

#91. As people, my parents,were very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.

David O. Russell

#92. She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved - a word for the act of falling out of love. I said I couldn't think of it. It wasn't in the dictionary either, not the one she wanted.

Olivia Sudjic

#93. It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

Vera Wang

#94. Husbands and wives always loved each other, and that was what marriage meant. It was just so. Janie felt glad of the thought, for then it wouldn't seem so destructive and mouldy. She wouldn't be lonely anymore.

Zora Neale Hurston

#95. I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself
in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

Elizabeth Kim

#96. She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.

Haruki Murakami

#97. I meant it when I said I loved you"
"And I meant it in return.

Bernadette Marie

#98. I loved you before I met you, and I loved you the moment I held you. And I never meant to leave you so soon.

Rainbow Rowell

#99. This miserable, awful woman still had no idea what it meant to be truly beautiful, or truly loved.

Marissa Meyer

#100. For me, going home meant returning to the work of writing because writing was my home, because I loved writing more than I hated failing at writing, which is to say that I loved writing more than I loved my own ego, which is ultimately to say that I loved writing more than I loved myself.

Elizabeth Gilbert