Top 100 Love Realized Quotes
#1. He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.
Herbie Brennan
#2. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.
Abhijit Naskar
#3. I'm the man who said goodbye to you earlier, then realized he couldn't let you go. The same man who wants to make love to you all over again. Every single day of my life.
Jess Dee
#4. Love like this wasn't supposed to be missed, even for those of us that had never realized it was out there. Look at me being all optimistic and shit.
Jay Crownover
#5. A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six.
Sarah Ockler
#7. I didn't know what to do when I realized that a religion that promised me heaven only seemed to bring me a perpetual hell. I was made to believe that was the normal Christian life; then I heard the gospel.
D.R. Silva
#8. By the time I realized I even had a heart at all, it already belonged to you.
Brittany Comeaux
#9. When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.
Nenia Campbell
#10. I'm probably not 100 pounds anymore, but around there. I definitely got obsessed with my weight. When I met my husband and realized that he could put on 50 pounds and I'd still love him, I realized that's how he sees me or at least how he should!
Danica Patrick
#11. Then he took her, and it seemed to O that it had been so long since he had that, subconsciously, she realized she had begun to doubt whether he really desired her any longer, and in his act she saw proof of love.
Pauline Reage
#12. I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.
Ellen McLaughlin
#13. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.
Caroline Hanson
#14. I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.
Lorrie Moore
#15. I realized I love him just as much or more than I did four years ago. That I'm never live with him" She raised her head to look at her sisters with haunted eyes. "And I don't know if I can live without him.
Christine Feehan
#16. I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.
Cindy Gallop
#17. In all cases love was a strong emotion, not easily contained once it was unleashed. I realized now that love was like a blossoming flower that continually added more and more petals. But there was no end point. There was no full bloom. It went on forever. Growing, strengthening.
Rachel Hawthorne
#18. As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.
Lori Copeland
#19. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#20. My favorite movies are the ones that are different the second time, or where you're constantly discovering new things. It's not just genre movies, either, and it's not just about twists. I saw 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' four times in the theater before I realized it's a love story. I love that.
Drew Goddard
#21. If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Michelangelo
#22. I would do anything for you. Anything.
With that, he pushed his way out ... and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.
Actions did mean more than words.
J.R. Ward
#23. That was when I realized all love does is hurt people. It lulls you into a false sense of security, and then bam! You slam into a brick wall of pain. A shit ton of pain. Love destroys people to the point where they don't even care who else they hurt in the process.
Kate Evangelista
#24. I know you've told me you love me, but what do I mean to you?" Dirk was quiet for a long time, and Lee wondered what Dirk was going to say. "Everything." Dirk answered, and Lee realized that sometimes a single word said it all.
Andrew Grey
#25. And I've realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn't all we need - love is all there is.
Morgan Matson
#26. 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
#27. I realized that love is stronger than death and that people you barely know can amaze you.
Wendy Mass
#28. I realized that I love him pure and simple. It's not a matter of logic or function. It's a matter of my heart.
T.J. Klune
#29. I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.
George Lopez
#30. Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.
Melina Marchetta
#31. This thing about looking for someone less different ... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.
Nick Hornby
#32. Now I realized just how stupid I had been to even think that I might be able to undo a lifetime of love and attraction in just one conversation.
Bella Forrest
#34. He swore his love to me again and again until he finally realized that I cannot love anything right now. Falling in love is like holding a white flag out to your enemies and saying, "we give up, we're in love." Love is surrender.
Jennifer Lynch
#35. The second time they made love was even better than the first. Their bodies fit perfectly together, the eager desperation of their first time segueing into a slower, more fully realized sensual dance.
Claire Thompson
#36. Jake's pulse quickened when he realized that for the first time in his life, he was looking straight into the honest eyes of love.
Loree Lough
#37. I studied his face, and as I did, I realized that he was studying me, our thoughts tangling in mid-air for a moment.
Kate White
#38. I grew up not liking coffee, even though I'm from Brazil. Then I realized when I moved to San Francisco that it's not that I don't like coffee, I just didn't like the coffee I'd had before. I fell in love with my morning cup of coffee, and my second one at 11 A.M., and so on and so forth.
Mike Krieger
#39. Happiness cannot be bought by money,
cannot be acquired by degrees,
cannot be realized by power,
and cannot be earned by honor;
but can be won by kindness,
gained by charity,
attained by goodness,
and achieved by love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. At 22, there's a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I've realized I'll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.
Hunter Hayes
#41. It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory
Sarah Dessen
#42. I thought, Love gives light to darken life.
But now i realized ...
Love gives a light to darken life and later it takes the light and make it as a darkest life.
Saravanan
#43. I realized I'd be stuck doing all the hard stuff," she reasoned. "All the diapers and doctors' appointments and discipline, and you'd just breeze in and be Fun Daddy. I'd do all the work to make them good people, and you'd undo it anyway, and they'd love you and hate me.
Gillian Flynn
#44. While I watched her cook, I suddenly realized it was her art. The pan was her canvas, the ingredients her paint. She cooked with fire in her eyes, with passion in her soul, with love in her heart.
L.J. Shen
#45. With the many uncertainties, of one thing I was sure. I could not escape love, the very thing that had kept me mobile since the day I realized I was capable of giving and receiving it.
Rachael Wade
#46. As Abby finally turned and fled the frigid temperatures of the roof, she realized she still didn't know if the Fallen were good or evil. Whether they intended to kill the humans or not.
All she knew was that, at the tender age of thirteen, Abby Rhodes had just fallen head over heels in love.
Rosalie Lario
#47. I would have done anything. Don't you know that?"
"No."
"Then you haven't been paying close attention. I love you. Even more than gold and dreams, I love you. It seems insane you haven't realized it. You were the one who first informed me of it."
"I broke your leg," she said
Shana Abe
#48. I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
Mitch Albom
#49. I remembered you, my brother, and all yours; at the last minute you, you alone, were in my mind, and it was only then that I realized how much I love you, my dearest brother!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#50. I realized it was like looking into the sun - you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.
Jodi Picoult
#51. I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
Caroline Kennedy
#52. I would love her until she realized that together we were something great. Something perfect. Something forever.
A Meredith Walters
#53. I knew you were the one when I realized your smile was my heaven, your laugh my favorite song, and your arms my home.
Steve Maraboli
#54. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
Lauren Kate
#55. It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had,
Tracee Ellis Ross
#56. [S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.
Lauren Oliver
#57. But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love
Lindsey Kelk
#58. Kind, reasonable, thoughtful. It wasn't 'love' or an admission of wild, passionate feelings, but he realized he liked her three words more. 'Love' would have been easy, another easy lie in a long line of lies. 'Love' would be easy to dismiss.
Amy Tintera
#59. I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.
Pierre Soulages
#60. And I felt closer to you. Because you knew me so much better than I'd realized - and still loved me.
Rosamund Lupton
#61. Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you've realized, you love, and you are reached.
John De Ruiter
#62. Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.
Hrithik Roshan
#63. You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling. When you get it all back, hold on to it.
Isabel Vincent
#64. After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
Mark Ruffalo
#65. Whatever we had is over. It died the minute I walked downstairs and realized the world I'd always known was a lie.- Blaire Wynn
Abbi Glines
#66. I also realized that there's a difference between soul mates and true love."
"Is one type of love better than the other? I don't know, but I'm lucky enough to have found them both.
Lisa De Jong
#67. But I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love. - Rose Hathaway
Richelle Mead
#68. An obstreperous urge seized him. he desperately wanted to hold on to her, to support his slipping heart, and when it slipped away, he realized she had gone away, incarcerating herself in his thought with her smile and unblemished innocence.
Faraaz Kazi
#69. My mom always wanted a bunch of kids, but they stopped after me. I never understood why."
His voice was wistful. Haven closed the distance between them and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Maybe they realized they created perfection when they made you and didnt need anymore.
J.M. Darhower
#70. I was looking for someone to inspire me, motivate me, support me, keep me focused; someone who would effectively love me, cherish me, make me happy and then I realized that all along I was looking for myself.
Alex
#71. At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.
Jodi Picoult
#72. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.
Maxim Gorky
#74. And I really wanted to see you, too," she said. "When I couldn't see you any more, I realized that. It was as clear as if the planets all of a sudden lined up in a row for me. I really need you. You're a part of me; I'm a part of you.
Haruki Murakami
#75. And then it all came rushing back; that's when I realized I'll never stop having a thing for you.
Ahmed Mostafa
#76. The girl wouldn't last the year. Girls like her were soft and easy to break. Lowborns always wanted glory until they realized the hard work it entailed. Darren had worked hard for everything, and a girl who tried to take that away? Well, she wasn't worth very much.
Rachel E. Carter
#77. As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.
Lauren Kate
#78. You can never completely get it - being a Christian - but I think I really got it when my first son was born in 2006. I just realized the love that God has for all of us. It was seeing my son born and knowing the unconditional love that I have for him.
Mark Teixeira
#79. I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.
Helen Smith
#80. Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
Jeffrey McDaniel
#81. When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
Banana Yoshimoto
#82. Oh, America, how I began to love your country! What miles of silences God has made in you for contemplation! If only people realized what all your mountains and forests are really for!
Thomas Merton
#83. The second I tried to tell myself I wasn't in love was the moment I realized I was.
Lang Leav
#84. There, in the silence that's never quite silent, I realized that, if there are at least seven thousand wants to speak, there are at least seven thousand ways to listen.
Mark Nepo
#85. It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
Nina LaCour
#86. She looked sideways at Aleck, taking a peek at the future walking beside her, and realized her life would never be the same.
D.A. Henneman
#87. When they both realized they were heartbroken enough to want the love torn from their rib cages, they touched each other with their hands and their mouths, and they forgot they wanted to be cured.
Anna-Marie McLemore
#88. I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.
Josh Peck
#89. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.
Miranda July
#90. Realized that only one thing separated the men and women who felt a deep sense of love and belonging from the people who seem to be struggling for it. That one thing is the belief in their worthiness.
Brene Brown
#91. Neighbor to neighbor. It is a mentality that has been fostered over centuries, since the earliest settlers realized the only way to survive in this desolate but beautiful outpost was to work together. Much of their music captures this spirit.
Jim DeFede
#92. It was a delicious feeling, falling in love. I'd had so many luxuries in my life, and I thought I'd had a taste of this before, but I realized now it was merely a cheap imitation of something not meant to be imitated in the first place.
Kiera Cass
#93. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.
Tess Thompson
#94. His yellow eyes gazed at me possessively
I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.
Maggie Stiefvater
#95. For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray.
Gloria Estefan
#96. I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
Marianne Williamson
#97. And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.
Vatsal Surti
#98. He gazed up at me in that way that made me feel cherished. His expression was simultaneously wondrous and joyful. I realized that I put that expression on this beautiful man's face.
Mia Sheridan Archer's Voice
#99. Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
#100. I think this man realized how important it is for you to love yourself, to find your self-worth. Those who truly love you don't just stop when you hurt them." Keeley's
Lora Ann