Top 100 Love Returned Quotes
#1. Love is a condition that tends to cloud men's reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey
Isabel Allende
#2. We are what we love, Connie. The secret - the thing we hope for - is having that love returned.
Anthony Quinn
#3. All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. What I remember is that love returned in the form of another man, new hopes, and new dreams.
Paulo Coelho
#4. There's no greater gift than a love returned in equal measure.
Lorraine Heath
#5. The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. The Queen, in love with love, returned her royal consent. [allowing newlyweds to honeymoon in private instead of appearing at Court to Queen Elizabeth I]
Bertrice Small
#8. What he needs now is to love and have that love returned.
Cassandra Clare
#9. everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the way you want it to.
but i have hope
because i do not know everything.
AVA.
#10. I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe ... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
Ornella Muti
#11. Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.
Alice Hoffman
#12. True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.
Michel Templet
#13. And love was always a beautiful thing, even when it wasn't returned.
Marian Tee
#14. Love is the one thing that's not easy to find. It's an achievement, Eddie, to feel such a glorious emotion, whether it's returned or not. Some men never do.
Alice Hoffman
#15. Unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned.
Ted Chiang
#16. The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
Ann Patchett
#17. This Scarlet ... you're in love with her, aren't you?" He froze, becoming stone still. As the hover climbed the hill to the palace, his shoulders sank, and he returned his gaze to the window. "She's my alpha,
Marissa Meyer
#18. Why waste romance on a love that would never be returned?
Julia Quinn
#19. I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have.
John Green
#20. I feel a little like the moon who took possession of you for a moment and then returned your soul to you. You should not love me. One ought not to love the moon. If you come too near me, I will hurt you.
Anais Nin
#21. It's a funny thing about love: you don't need to have it returned to love somebody. Loving's enough.
A Prologue to Love
Taylor Caldwell
#22. Happy is love or friendship when returned
The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.
Bion Of Smyrna
#23. Of course, some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be returned. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something.
Andrew Bridge
#24. Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#25. Always remember
You are loved
You carry the love
You spread the love
You radiate the love
And the love is returned to you
Karen Hackel
#26. She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
Oscar Wilde
#27. Tack's voice was granite when he started, "They will not take her boy, and the time to fuck with Carissa Teodoro is now over."
Joker's voice was a quiet growl when he started, "You know you got my love, brother."
"I do," Tack returned. "And it's a privilege, Carson.
Kristen Ashley
#28. When they would return to one another from their solitariness, they returned gently as dew comes to the morning grass.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#29. May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson
#30. When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#31. I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#33. I am sorry " I murmured.
"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.
"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.
He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.
Deanna Raybourn
#34. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly. Ci vedremo lassu, angelo.
Timothy Conigrave
#35. I guess the hardest thing is having so much love for you and it somehow not being returned. I develop crushes all the time, but that is just misdirected need for you. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned.
Timothy Conigrave
#36. His eyes danced like a teenager. "Eat anyone alive today?" her father joked.
Ruby returned his wicked grin and sauntered into the living room. "Not today, but tomorrow's another day.
Stephanie Greenhalgh
#37. Theirs is the stoneless fruit of love
Whose love is returned.
Tiruvalluvar
#38. Trust is not an obsession, it's an extension of love. When we truly love someone, we give them our heart to hold in their hands. And when that love is returned, that very trust is balm to our souls.
Julie Lessman
#39. Once upon a time, a prince fell madly in love with a demon from the Underworld. When she disappeared back into the sea, he ached so much for her that he walked into the ocean and never returned.
- Kenettran Folk Tales, various authors
Marie Lu
#40. He separated you from what you love, to teach you about the nature of this life. Then He returned to you what you love, to teach you about the nature of the next.
Yasmin Mogahed
#41. I want her to be happy, and she's most happy with you. Maybe this will make up for ... past mistakes." He shook his head and returned to his normal idiocy. "So, either you say, 'Sure, I'd love to have you along,' or you have a big bird dropping things on your head the whole trip.
Julie Kagawa
#42. The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.
Marthe Bibesco
#43. Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#44. The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless. I returned there yesterday and stood again upon the mountain.
Maggie Nelson
#45. She tried to hear his heartbeat through the fabric of his tuxedo jacket, and the fact that she wasn't sure whether she could hear it made her think about how hard it was for any girl to ever know whether her love was being returned.
Kathryn Davis
#46. Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love's source. There had been no coincidence.
Susan Abulhawa
#47. A returned love letter is written in the most violent language, by your own hand.
Jardine Libaire
#48. Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.
Jed Diamond
#49. If my time loving you has taught me anything, it's that love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it's finished nothing destroys it.
Sarah Noffke
#50. In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire.
Paulo Coelho
#51. Love is giving without desiring, it's giving without requiring, but know that it will be returned. Maybe not as expected, but as needed
Gerald Mills
#52. Voyager was my collective. I knew I was safe there. I trusted all of you; I knew all of you. I could. . . I could try to learn to love. But all that's changed. We've returned to Earth. I'm a - an oddity." "Seven, that's not true,
Christie Golden
#53. Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned ... another lesson learned
Alicia Keys
#54. Love is always stronger than death, and unto that love you have now returned.
Richard Rohr
#55. Food is love," I replied.
"No, babe, it ain't. But makin' it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is," Take returned.
Kristen Ashley
#56. She'd put her teeth in his heart, long ago, and he'd left the print there, evidence that he wanted her love. That he returned it.
Lauren Gilley
#58. Lisa Marie Rice thrilled fans and new readers alike when she returned to the world of her popular Midnight Series with Midnight Vengeance and Midnight Promises. This June, in Midnight Secrets, we get to fall in love with her cracktastic and sexy romantic suspense series all over again.
Lisa Marie Rice
#59. How dare you accuse me of your own failings?" Laurana returned. "I love Elistan. I reverence him.
Margaret Weis
#60. And I love you.' she said her heart buoyant. She really did love him, although each time she said it and he could not reply, she loved him perhaps a little less.
Mark Helprin
#61. Isn't it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.
Susan Fletcher
#62. After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.
Scott Turow
#63. Life isn't always beauty," he returned. "Most of the time it's shit. But you keep fightin' to turn it around, that says it all about you. And you're fightin'. As a fighter too, I fuckin' love that in you.
Kristen Ashley
#64. Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman's shameless grin. Reward if returned.
Whitney K.E.
#65. She returned to him, pressed his cheeks in her hands. "My eccentric old man, thinking you could fly."
"This time, only my words will fly," he said solemnly. They both cracked up. Almost twenty years together and if blazing heat had turned to warmth, humor, it was less wild but easier to sustain.
Lauren Groff
#66. Although not always simultaneous in taking effect, nor necessarily at all equal in voltage, the process of love is rarely unilateral. When the moment comes, a secret attachment is often returned with interest. Some know this by instinct; others learn in a hard school.
Anthony Powell
#67. The townspeople took the prince for dead
When he never returned with the dragon's head
When with her, he stayed
She thought he'd be too afraid
But he loved her too much instead.
Jess C. Scott
#68. Andrew returned to his contemplation of the dirty window with an ache in his heart and in his balls.
J.K. Rowling
#69. This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who is loving us, and if that love is not returned - without demanding any physical response other than the marks of affectionate good will.
Augustine Of Hippo
#70. The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.
Emily Susan Rapp
#71. Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?
Eowyn Ivey
#72. I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.
John Mayer
#73. All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Edmund Spenser
#74. You could love someone so strongly, for so long, and still forget - until the memories returned.
Jason Heller
#75. Love isn't something you can just unlearn ... no matter who you are, or who you're born to, or how much it's not returned - - Elephant Girl
Jane Devin
#76. Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#78. I have yearned always," he said softly, "for love given and returned; have spent my life in the attempt to give my love to those who were not worthy of it. Allow me this: to give my life for the sake of one who is.
Diana Gabaldon
#79. I wished that love could be simple, that it was always given and returned in the same measure, equally and at the same time, that all the planets aligned in a perfect way to dispel all doubts, that it was easy to understand and never painful.
Mary E. Pearson
#80. Tatiana hugged him and said, "And here's mine: 'Honey, what do you prefer - my beautiful body or my beautiful face?'"
"Your sense of humor," returned Alexander, holding her to him until she couldn't breathe.
Paullina Simons
#81. Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.
E. M. Forster
#82. She had been his first love, so maybe, in a way, she had the rightful claim to his heart. Maybe it was like how when you stepped out of the grocery store line to grab bread, no one could really be mad when you returned to your spot. It wasn't cutting if you had been there before.
Brit Bennett
#83. Love only gives hope if it is returned. A love not returned works like poison.
Skyla Madi
#84. He downed the last of his coffee, carried his mug over to the pot, poured himself a refill, and returned to the table.
Why, yes, thank you, I'd love some more coffee. Hmmm, Narcisstic Personality Disorder? Attention Deficit Disorder? Or just a typical male?
Lynda Hilburn
#85. In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.
Mike Dooley
#86. He returned her love. He lusted after her sweet young body. He wanted her the way he wanted to breathe the spring air.
He had never loved anyone before. He had not known even what this feeling for his tiny slave was.
Now in the crisp, clear spring sunlight, he knew.
Andrew M. Greeley
#87. One only realizes the extent of his love when he thinks he has lost the one he loves; and unhappily, very often only begins to love when he feels his love is not returned.
Waguih Ghali
#88. Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned
Gail Carson Levine
#89. I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.
M.F. Moonzajer
#90. Free love, man, Free Love! Which, by the way, was the single greatest concept a young man has ever heard. About three years late, women got wise an my frustration returned to normal levels.
Steve Martin
#91. My hope is not in the absence of suffering and comfort returned. My hope is in the presence of the One who promises never to leave or forsake, the One who declares nothing "will be able to separate us from the love of God" (Rom. 8:39). Nothing.
Kara Tippetts
#92. God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it. He absorbed your darkness so that one day you can finally and dazzlingly become your true self and take your seat at his eternal feast.
Timothy Keller
#93. As he put in his studs he realized that he was enjoying life as he would probably never enjoy it again. Everything was hallowed by the haze of his own youth. He had arrived, abreast of the best in his generation at Princeton. He was in love and his love was returned.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. Hesitating at the last instant, she gazed back at Vesper, and tears brimmed in her eyes as she murmured in a meek voice, "Good-bye, my love." Then she returned to the enchanted device and called out, "May this new vessel serve you well!
Robin Jarvis
#95. So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap.
"Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up.
Kristan Higgins
#96. Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting ... that the loved one will turn to someone else.
Agatha Christie
#97. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.
Oscar Wilde
#98. Recalling "Love Games," she returned to the present with a jolt and glanced at the set in time to find the show over for the day. She'd missed it!
Barbara Delinsky
#99. Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.'
- All my old loves will be returned to me
Carolyn Turgeon
#100. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart.
S.C. Stephens
