Love After All Quotes

#1. Dancing is the first step to falling in love, after all.

Anne Leonard

#2. It was love, after all,
that rubbed the skins from their gray cheeks,
crippled their fingers,
snarled their hair, brown or dull gold.
Hate would merely have smashed them.

Margaret Atwood

#3. Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn't mean they should.

Kelly Moran

#4. Love is not proud. Love does not boast. Love, after all, matters the most. Love does not run. Love does not hide. Love does not keep locked inside. Love is the river that flows through. Love never fails you.

Brandon Heath

#5. Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Alice Hoffman

#6. Love, after all, was universal. Qhuinn closed his fist up tight, and knew he would never, ever take that ring off. "Always," Blay murmured. "Because family is an always kind of thing.

J.R. Ward

#7. What is love after all but trusting in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

#8. love after all is indivisible. Loving one more doesn't mean loving another less.

A.S.A Harrison

#9. Afterwards - because it turned out that there was to be an afterwards for Teddy - he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all.

Kate Atkinson

#10. Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Love, after all, beats Death. Every time.

Dixie Lyle

#12. Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?

Samuel Beckett

#13. Even now, after Nick had caused me pain, the truth was I didn't want to cause him any. Wasn't that love, after all?

Laura Dave

#14. I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

Bill Veeck

#15. Because love, after all, was eternal and not subject to the whims of death.

J.R. Ward

#16. In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

Alice Hoffman

#18. I don't believe that happily ever after means we never have disagreements or go through conflicts. What I do believe is that there is someone who is willing to stick through all of these things with me, because we love each other more than we love ourselves.

Marilyn Grey

#19. Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,
But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;
Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

#20. After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.

Sathya Sai Baba

#22. Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

John Dufresne

#23. I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.

Harold Prince

#24. Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

Neil Gaiman

#25. Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Alice Walker

#26. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Jim George

#27. A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#28. It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.

Graham Masterton

#29. It can be hard to feel like you have to start from scratch when you have invested so much time with a person, but shortly after my break up I realized something: I wasn't losing the chance to have love
I was getting the opportunity to do it all over again.

Lauren Conrad

#30. Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable.

Junot Diaz

#31. What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?

Anthony Doerr

#32. Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

Hafez

#33. I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.

Zig Ziglar

#34. I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.

David Richo

#35. Every person, young or old, risks the possibility of their life not turning out as planned. Especially when it comes to marriage. They might find they aren't suited for marriage after all. Or their spouses might die of an early illness. Taking a risk on another person is what marriage is all about.

Sabrina Jeffries

#36. You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Charles Baxter

#37. The sheath that held her soul had assumed significance - that was all. She was a sun, radiant, growing, gathering light and storing it - then after an eternity pouring it forth in a glance, the fragment of a sentence, to that part of him that cherished all beauty and all illusion.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. Oh yeah, pain. I think it's the same when we lose someone we love. It never stops hurting. But maybe it shouldn't. That pain, after all, is a souvenir of love.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#39. I consider myself really lucky to be able to visit so many parts of the world, but after all of that, I love to come home. I appreciate my own space and the world I create for myself, my family and friends.

Kylie Minogue

#40. It is perhaps necessary for something dear to be lost."
"Why?"
"Perhaps it is necessary to the making of a story. A story after all is a way of remembering love.

Caleb Crain

#41. Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

Orson Scott Card

#42. I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.

Ellen Gilchrist

#43. After all, once there was a girl named Lucy who loved her family, old and new.
It's not the type of love that ends.

Emery Lord

#44. Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides.

Nirmala Srivastava

#45. After all, what was more important, in the end, than love?

Stephenie Meyer

#46. And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in
such a way?" After all, her own sister did.
He gave her an odd look. "There is no shame in being the
mistress of a king. It's a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.

Jenna Maclaine

#47. Most of all, I wanted to forget my mission and lose myself in the embrace of the one person who had ever seen my heart and claimed to love me after.

Rosamund Hodge

#48. The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

Philip Yancey

#49. Like a spider web that you walk into, it is not so easy to get all the tendrils of real love off after you have passed through it.

Jonathan Carroll

#50. Just because he doesn't love you the way you want him to doesn't mean he doesn't love you with all he has

Anna Todd

#51. So I am not at all interested in this whole 'she-shed' thing, I love my 'man-cave' - after all, cave is much more sturdy than a shed and there is always a chance that it's the entrance to Batman's secret hideout.

C.S. Woolley

#52. But I love that feeling of utter depletion: It is an ecstatic sense of having committed myself to the absolute limit. But after recharging at night, I'm ready to go the next morning. Isn't that what life is all about?

George Lois

#53. I do believe all shall be well with you, Prue. It's come to my heart as soft as dew, and as sweet as a red rose, that you'll get love as well as give it. After my time, though, after my time. But no matter for that, so I do know it's to come.

Mary Webb

#54. Love Egoist:
Let me tell you this. I've done things to be appreciated but nothing to be insulted for. After all, I'm trying my hardest not to disappoint my students.

Bisco Hatori

#55. You must know, the day your star exploded into my universe, you altered it all. You exposed my light and my dark, settled into my existence and there you will be and glow in the matter of my heart, long after light is only a memory. You have changed things for always.

Jennifer DeLucy

#56. Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.

K.J. Bishop

#57. She'd believed in the promises of the '60s, after all, even if she'd participated only indirectly. Hadn't they told themselves they would not be like the generation of their parents, trapped in choices they'd made at twenty?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#58. She smiled, 'Oh, I'd like to believe that I'm always in love with something. After all, what else is there?

Yvonne Woon

#59. She was the death of me,
the beginning and the end.
And I never understood her,
for how could someone
So beautiful be the cause
of so much destruction
after all.

Robert M. Drake

#60. After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#61. She had seen him once, smiling a little through another friar's sermon about Hell, saying after the other left that fear of Hell is one of many paths to it. Forget Hell and love one another. That is all He wants of you.

Christopher Buehlman

#62. When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment.

Paul Weller

#63. One conversation! One simple, honest, true conversation, and all your questions would be answered, all your problems solved! Really, man, is it that difficult? Then you'd be free to fall into each other's arms and live your Happily Ever After. Why make it so complicated?
Eanrin

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

#64. Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.

Alafair Burke

#65. Relationships aren't about idealistic love and happily ever after. It's those things that bug [ ... ] us about each other and yet eventually we find ourselves wishing we could go back and do it all over again.

Julie Cross

#66. I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

Haruki Murakami

#67. Not only did
I love her,
but I could tell
the universe loved
her, too.
More than others.
She was different.
After all; I would
be a fool not to
notice the way the
sunshine played with
her hair.

Christopher Poindexter

#68. While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It sounded like 'All lub boo,' but I didn't care. To reciprocate, I showed her what an ex-Marine looks like when he cries.

Jim Beaver

#69. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.

J.K. Rowling

#70. Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!

Nikita Dudani

#71. Love was forever, love was not lost when a life was; love did not fall away or weaken a person. Love was strong and people were stronger because of it; love continued, in all forms, in every way, until the end of time and even after that.

Lindy Zart

#72. After all this time, after the world fell to ashes and the devil came out to play, she kept something that was wholly mine.

Christina Escamilla

#73. I really love to run, and then right after, get some good lifting in. Then, of course, follow all that up with some healthy meals and protein.

Blake Jenner

#74. At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins.

Hanif Kureishi

#75. I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

James Patterson

#76. Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

Max Stirner

#77. And I know it might sound crazy, but after all that, I still love you. You wanna come back in my life But now there is something I have to do. I have to tell the one that I once adored, that they can't have my love no more, 'cause my heart can't take no more lies, And my eyes are all out of cries.

Amanda Perez

#78. New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.

Moliere

#79. I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't used to be so hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending not to be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.

Heidi Heilig

#80. Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors.

Rodman Philbrick

#81. After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.

Mark Twain

#82. I love chocolate cake for breakfast," Peggy stalls, "it sets me up for the day. A little decadence is good for the soul." She's been eating more cake than usual, lately. Impending death does have compensations after all, then, if only chocolate-covered ones.

Menna Van Praag

#83. You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean ...

John Geddes

#84. My eyes may not know all of you, but my heart does. I loved you before I was born, and I will love you long after I pass from this earth." Logan's

Dannika Dark

#85. He served humankind but never understood people, and though he yearned with all his heart for love and companionship, year after year he could bear humanity less and less in the flesh. His

Jan Swafford

#86. After all these years, my heart still wants you. It still misses you. it still aches for you. I can't control what my heart wants, I could just deny it of it ... Love, Viv

Eveli Acosta

#87. I love my ex so much I printed out all his pictures. After all, I need him for target practice. And I just love customised toilet paper and doormats. My only regret is that those items don't bear his autograph.

Natalya Vorobyova

#88. Person after person after person ... they all converge at one moment, irrevocably changing the course of a thousand more live.
As it is with accidents, so it is with love.

David Levithan

#89. After 40 years of not playing, I admit I'm totally in love with my guitar. It's a Froggy Bottom acoustic steel string guitar. All I have to do is hit a couple of clean chords and the endorphins are right there. It's like the top of my head has come off and stardust and magic have fallen in.

April Gornik

#90. After all, what is hell but the eternal absence of God? To exist in a hellish state is to be denied forever the promise of hope, of redemption, of love. To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography.

John Connolly

#91. Then, at the last moment, I am forced to admit to myself that I was right after all,
and that it was really impossible to go down into the burrow without exposing the
thing I love best, for a little while at least, to all my enemies, on the ground, in the
trees, in the air.

Franz Kafka

#92. I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers Grimm' sort of stuff. So you have all those shades of gray in there.

Erin Morgenstern

#93. If I had scenes that were so boring I didn't want to write them, then there was no way anyone would want to read them. This was my novel, after all. If I didn't love it, no one would.

Rachel Aaron

#94. Oh, darlin', I'm gonna walk you through it, kiss you through it, feel you through it, taste you through it. Hell, I'm hoping you call out my name through it, but for some reason, if I can't get you off, by all means, play along. It won't hurt my feelings. But I don't think you'll need to.

Beverly Preston

#95. From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

George Strait

#96. Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.

Tamera Alexander

#97. Because love is worth it after all.

Jess Rothenberg

#98. The power of the unknown fact hit me like a bolt of lightning, that maybe, my father did care about me after all, and I realized another true thing that day: the love of a father is invaluable; regardless of how old you become, or how many bridges you cross in life

Sara Niles

#99. Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Al-Ghazali

#100. The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either.

Toby Barlow