Love Withers Quotes

#1. Love withers under constraints. Its very essence is liberty; it is comparable neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear; it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries are in confidence, equality and unreserve.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

Leo Buscaglia

#3. Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

Diane Meier

#5. Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.

Lew Wallace

#6. Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.

Ahmad Shamlou

#7. Love is a natural instinct that grows if it is nurtured. It evolves itself but withers if it is not watered with affection, care, respect and kindness.

Balroop Singh

#8. I held you in the square
And felt the evening
Re-order itself around
Your smile.

Ben Okri

#9. Love can sort of rebound and regrow and reinvent itself around a lot of things, but when somebody can't forgive themself for something, I think love sort of withers in that situation.

Tim McGraw

#10. Even worse are those people who say: I'm happy because I'm sacrificing my life for those I love. And do you think that people who love us want to see us suffering for their sakes? Do you tink that love is a source of suffering?"
"To be honest, yes"
"Well, it shouldn't be

Paulo Coelho

#11. You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Brian Posehn

#12. You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

Maat Morrison

#13. Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.

Joel Miller

#14. This is a generational difference. This is the same woman who told me to request "twilight sleep" during delivery. (Twilight sleep is the memory-erasing pain medication that doctors gave women in the 1950s whenever they had to take a baby out or put a body snatcher in.) I

Tina Fey

#15. He was entrancing, with that epicene beauty which in extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind.

Evelyn Waugh

#16. Alayna I adored how he said my name, how it always felt like he was saying so much more with only those three syllables. Like a prayer, like a touchstone. It made me feel beautiful.

Laurelin Paige

#17. The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Bill Withers

#18. Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

Karen Maezen Miller

#19. Because I love you. I love you too much, like I always do, but this time I don't regret it and I don't wish I could take it back because you need it. So take it from me, H. Take it all from me.

Laurelin Paige

#20. Are you kidding? Aren't you worried I'll become that hung up on you?"
"I'm hoping you become that hung up on me.

Laurelin Paige

#21. Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#22. As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

Adam Haslett

#23. The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#24. Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal.

Mark T. Barnes

#25. Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining, ... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Martha Gellhorn

#26. The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

Guru Nanak

#27. but when people are long indifferent to us, we grow indifferent to their indifference. It

Charlotte Bronte

#28. I've never been your boss, Alayna. If anything, you're the one who owns me.

Laurelin Paige

#29. We're supposed to love flowers, yet we rip them from their homes, and give them to people who don't love us.
-Toril Withers (Dark Winter).

John Hennessy

#30. Love thrives on trust ad withers in its absence.

Marty Rubin

#31. No. You hurt people because you didn't have any idea what love really was. You were trying to understand it in the only way you knew how. It's horrible, yes. But it's forgivable. I forgive you. I forgive a thousand worse things you may have done. I can forgive anything.

Laurelin Paige

#32. Loving for beauty is like vowing a lifetime commitment to a rose. No-matter how sweet-scented or pink "petald", every rose withers.

Moffat Machingura

#33. To finally meet Alayna's eyes. Though I'm torn and uncertain, there is one truth that does not waver - I am in love with Alayna Withers. I will do anything for her. She is my light, and I will fight like hell to keep her from my darkness. Whatever that takes.

Laurelin Paige

#34. Always stand up for what you believe in. Always defend yourself and your beliefs.

Carol Alt