Top 100 I Never Knew Love Quotes
#1. No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.
Stephen Sondheim
#2. I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never knew I had arrived. My parents had 11 children. While I love them and my five brothers and five sisters deeply, some days I felt lost in the litter.
Regina Brett
#3. This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.
I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.
Maggie Stiefvater
#4. This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.
Cecelia Ahern
#5. You didn't move your arm. You let me rest there. You didn't pull away. You pulled closer. You were so good to me. You knew and pretended
you didn't.
"Let's always love each other, and never be in love with each other."
And I agreed.
David Levithan
#6. And she always, always made it a point to tell me that her name, when spelled backward, was still Hannah. "A palindrome," I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that's when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.
Colleen Hoover
#7. I was happy with her and I suspect I never knew her.Would I have been truly happy if I had actually known her?
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#8. I had always been a solitary person. Therefore I had a habit of opening my heart to a piece of paper. I thought that was quite secure. I knew that those words would never go out there, except of course if someone read them.
Pet Torres
#9. I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself.
Nutan Bajracharya
#10. I love you. No doubts. I can smile now because It was so true: I never had any doubts; I always knew he was it for me, I knew he was all I'd ever want
Amy Molloy
#11. This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.
Alicia Coppola
#12. I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected ... you just never know whats going to happen.
Reese Witherspoon
#13. I love her. So fucking much. I'm going to give her everything. Everything she never even knew she needed.
Debra Anastasia
#14. I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
Aleksandar Hemon
#15. I could never, I knew then, lose myself "in love." Margery had accused me of coldness, and she was right, but she was also wrong: For me, for always, the paramount organ of passion was the mind. Unnatural, unbalanced, perhaps, but it was true: Without intellect, there could be no love.
Laurie R. King
#16. I do care, goddamn it! Have you been listening? I. Love. You. I never really knew what that meant until you.
Shayla Black
#17. Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'
Oscar Wilde
#18. I love you," I told him. There. Nice and simple. "I knew you would find me."
He smiled at me. "I would never stop looking.
Ilona Andrews
#19. Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.
Holly Hood
#20. I also knew, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that I could never walk away. I needed him. I love him. More than I ever imagined I could love another person. And, apart from that love, nothing else mattered.
M. Leighton
#21. God forgives us, as - when - we forgive them who injure us - and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew - but we never know - we never reach the end of understanding - the understanding of God - the mystery of his love ...
Lucy Beckett
#22. That man loved me so hard I knew I'd never do half of what I should to deserve it. And that was the point. He said I never had to do a thing to make him love me. He just did. He just loved me.
Rachael Herron
#23. I never knew I wanted to become a ballerina. I was discovered at the age of 13. I had a love for movement even though I had no exposure to dance other than what I saw in music videos, like hip-hop music videos. But I knew that I loved moving.
Misty Copeland
#24. I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.
George Strait
#25. We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.
Iman Abdulmajid
#26. You gave me back the paradise
That I thought I lost for good
You helped me find the reasons why
It took me by surprise that you understood
You knew all along
What I never wanted to say
Until I learned to love myself
I was never ever lovin' anybody else.
Madonna
#27. I'd never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.
Audrey Hepburn
#28. I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#29. This was never making love before..not before you.I knew how different it was going to be with you the first time we kissed."
"You knew that ... just from a kiss?"
"I'll have to remind you about the kiss.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. More than anything I was relieved that in my unfamiliar babbling-and-wanting-to-talk state I'd stopped myself from blurting the thing I'd never said, even though it was something we both knew well enough without me saying out loud to him in the street - which was, of course, I love you.
Donna Tartt
#31. I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it.
Truth Devour
#32. I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.
(Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.)
Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.
Samuel Beckett
#33. I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
Alan Ball
#34. I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.
Rebecca Donovan
#35. Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you
Stephenie Meyer
#36. I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.
David Bowie
#37. I always knew I would fall in love with you," he said softly, "but you were never supposed to love me back.
Priscilla Glenn
#38. [Winston]: " ... I never felt everything was completely safe. I think part of me knew I'd gained you through false means."
... "Win," [Poppy] whispered against his mouth, "my heart was always yours, never think otherwise.
Kristen Callihan
#39. I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.
Cassandra Clare
#40. A palindrome, I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that's when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.
-Owen Gentry
Colleen Hoover
#41. I'll keep looking- till that watery reflection of mine in your eye, rolls down as a tear. I'll keep looking till we finally look away like our lives never met. Let's cheat destiny as if we never knew each other. Let's do this last thing together.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#42. You were right. I'm going to make you want things you never knew you wanted.
Meredith Wild
#43. Never understood how much I loved you. I didn't. I know how we talked about our love, how it was this thing that was EVERYTHING to us? I was everything to me, Ever, every last goddamned motherfucking thing, and it's gone. You're gone. And I needed it even more than I knew then, when I had you.
Jasinda Wilder
#44. Staring up at me, hearing my tired voice, he reached out his tiny hand. He knew me, even though he had never seen me before. And I knew him. He was the love I'd been trying to express my whole life.
Noah Hawley
#45. I watched you try on suits in Hugo Boss.'For the big job,' you said. And I laughed, because I knew I would never see it. I'd never get up and watch you put it on and walk out of the door. I would never be the one that you came home to.
Kate Chisman
#46. Tears resurfaced. I tried to bite them back, but they bled free. And I knew they would fall endless, ceaseless, even when my eyes were dry. Never would I stop grieving her. This love was eternal.
A.L. Jackson
#47. Your mom's not that bad," said Jim. "Are you trying to make me mad?" "Okay she is." "I knew it. You've never liked her." "What's the right answer?" "So you're just telling me what I want to hear?" Jim reached over and put a hand on his wifes. "I love you.
Tim Dorsey
#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. God had a plan for everything. I never knew I'd come to Iowa, but now I love Iowa. Everything is so great about it - the people, the environment, education. I'm so proud to say I'm an Iowan. I'm living the dream.
Liang Chow
#50. This song always kills me, I said. She sighed, and then gave up. Why? Oh, I don't know. It makes me feel nostalgia for a time I never even knew. I wasn't even alive. That's what I do to you too, she said, I'll just bet. I was what everything I loved did to me.
Michael Chabon
#51. I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.
Simon Cowell
#52. If I woke up in a different body every day
if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow
would you still love me?
David Levithan
#53. Christ loved me enough to die for me while I was yet His enemy. If God had waited for me to learn to love Him before He died, I would never have been saved. I knew that with my head, but when I met someone who behaved in such a completely Christlike way, I was amazed. - Helen Roseveare
Noel Piper
#54. I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
Camille Paglia
#55. I knew that Jessie and I were going to be okay; I knew we were all going to be okay. And I had faith that wherever our individual paths led us would be exactly where we were always meant to be. For a girl that had never believed in anything, this realization meant everything.
Rose Fall
#56. I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.
Deb Caletti
#57. You never knew this, but I was in love. Okay, infatuated, but it felt like love at the time.
Teresa Lo
#58. A man who had never spoken love to me, who had never needed to, for I knew he loved me, as surely as I knew I lived. For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary. It is all. It is undying. And it is enough.
Diana Gabaldon
#59. You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. The truth is, I was always a dreamer, but then I met you, and I knew I will never dream a better dream again.
Timothy Joshua
#61. Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
Erykah Badu
#62. Love I never associated with the senses, it was not even passion that I wanted; it was a conscious, subtle, elaborate sensuality, which I knew not how to procure.
Arthur Symons
#63. I'm sorry," I whispered. "I never wanted this for you. This life ... I knew it was going to kill me in the end. I wish you didn't have to be here when it finally caught up.
Julie Kagawa
#64. When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
Ville Valo
#65. I was never in love with someone else
I never had somebody waiting on me
'Cause you were all of my dreams come true
And I just wish you knew
Taylor, I was so in love with you.
Owl City
#66. Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.
Wendy Walker
#67. It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never knew I wanted but somehow always needed. It was a home that carried a heartbeat.
Nikki Rowe
#68. He was everything I never knew I was looking for.
Grace Lozada
#69. I mean , I never even had to really come out to my parents. They always knew, and it was always okay. Or not even okay, better than that. Not something that had to be evaluated at all. It just was. Like having brown hair.
Julie Buxbaum
#70. I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.
Scott Spencer
#71. Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.
Ellen DeGeneres
#72. I love you," I told him. "And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn't sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn't last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.
Megan Hart
#73. My favorite was Love Is ... Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.
Haven Kimmel
#74. Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.
Charles Spurgeon
#75. I wish that you knew you could never make it without love for your goddamned self, and that you'll never ever find it in anybody else.
Angel Haze
#76. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Garth Brooks
#77. There was a man who I once knew,
for me there was no other.
The closer to loving me he grew,
the more he would grow further.
I tried to love him as his friend,
then to love him as his lover;
but he never loved me in the end
his heart was for another.
Lang Leav
#78. It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
Candace Cameron Bure
#79. You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love ... betrayal ... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.
John Osborne
#80. Children have always liked the princess story, but they never knew what was her name. I think the princess was, is and will always be you.
Amit Kalantri
#81. I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry,
Diana Vreeland
#82. I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.
George Eliot
#83. As he hums the melody softly into my ear, I can feel the notes seep deep into my skin and bones, and birth an ache in my soul I never knew existed. What is this, if not impossible?
Ashley Poston
#84. I knew then that death could stop
a lot of things, but it could never cut the bond of friendship.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#85. If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
F Scott Fitzgerald
#86. Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented
these kisses just are. It's how they work. They break into basements you never knew you had.
Susan Fletcher
#87. What the hell, Cade? You knew, and you never thought . . . 'Hey, maybe I should tell my
brother'?"
"No, Cole, I never thought that," Cade said, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"And why the hell not?
Maisey Yates
#88. You have to know, from the moment I saw you outside Paradise High, I knew. I knew we were going to fall in love. And I've never regretted even a second of it. Not even now. I love you with all my heart. I always will. It was ... it was all worth it. - Sarah Hart
Pittacus Lore
#89. Never would have said forever if i knew it wouldnt last
Demi Lovato
#90. I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with Pleasures.
John Keats
#91. I was unable to resist my stare at her, I never felt like this before, I knew it's not that old feeling for a friend. What is it? Is it love?
Swapna Rajput
#92. I was you
and never knew it.
Rumi
#94. How could I have let you do any of those things when I've never even seen your face? When I don't even know your name?"
"That may be true," he said quietly, "but for just a moment there, I would have sworn you knew my heart.
Teresa Medeiros
#95. I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
Libba Bray
#96. I suddenly knew, in a way I'd never had before, what want meant, and why it was dangerous and greedy and huge.
Amy Lane
#97. However, embarrassment was quickly replaced with a completely different emotion all together when I heard him say the words that I knew I was never going to forget, "I'm going to marry that girl one day."
And in that moment ... I knew that I was falling in love.
Karli Perrin
#98. I never knew what it was to crave a woman's touch. Or to hunger for a woman's kiss."
"And now you do?" she asked hesitantly.
"Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I've been thinking of little else.
Lara Adrian
#99. I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.
Juliet Marillier
#100. You're my first love, and I never had the courage to tell you. My love for you is pure, ageless. I knew it the first time I saw you bob for apples at your ninth birthday party. I've known it all of our lives, and my love for you has grown as we've grown together, apart and back together again.
Trudy Stiles
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