Quotes About People We Love

#1. Sometimes we have to hurt the people we love to spare them a greater hurt.

Leah Raeder

#2. The horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

Keith Ablow

#3. Sometimes we have to forgive the people we love, even if we're mad as hell. That's just how it is.

Kristin Hannah

#4. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.

Cora Carmack

#5. We cannot do anything for the people we love, except to keep on loving them.

Fernando Savater

#6. Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.

Richard L. McGuire

#7. But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. We don't have to limit how many people we love. Our hearts make room for as many people as we want to let in.

Rachel Higginson

#9. I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

Marcia Wallace

#10. We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?

C.C. Hunter

#11. Some wounds never show, not even in the mirror, until we see them in the expressions on the faces of people we love.

Cameron Jace

#12. Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.

Nicola Yoon

#13. Because maybe it's in the stories that the people we love are still alive.

Daisy Whitney

#14. I knew this id who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no matter what anyone else might want for you.

Madeleine George

#15. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: we take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

#16. When people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

Jodi Picoult

#17. We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

Molly Ringwald

#18. It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Fred Rogers

#19. Let's be courageous in these days. Let's choose love and rest and grace. Let's use our minutes and hours to create memories with the people we love instead of dragging them on one more errand or shushing them while we accomplish one more seemingly necessary thing.

Shauna Niequist

#20. Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

David Gemmell

#21. We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.

Simon Sinek

#22. Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

Tom Perrotta

#23. There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. Life very rarely ever works out perfectly. We have to accept the people we love, flaws and all, and be thankful we got them in the first place.

Liz Schulte

#25. If we knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we'd tend not to notice the sunrise,or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love.

Madeleine L'Engle

#26. How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?

Ann Packer

#27. Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same.

Liz Miller

#28. We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

Corey Ann Haydu

#29. It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

Ugo Betti

#30. It is hard to lose the people we love ,but feeling sorry they died is selfish.Dying is going heaven home to God we know your papa is in heaven with our Lady and Jesus.Let us try to be happy for him.

Maryanne Raphael

#31. I thought of the priest who'd told me that many religions hold that it is easier to be closely connected to people we love after death than before.

Elizabeth Berg

#32. Nothing stops when we're gone," Lydia said. "The seasons don't stop. This river doesn't stop. Vultures will keep flying in circles. The lives of the people we love won't stop. Time keeps unspooling. Stories keep getting written.

Jeff Zentner

#33. When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

Monika Basile

#34. It could take a lifetime to really get to know someone. Do we ever really know everything about the people we love? No, I think that takes time, trust and respect.

Loni Flowers

#35. When we get involved with other people, the chances of a clash are present even with people we love because we do not have the same scripts in our heads.

Sol Stein

#36. People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ...

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#37. When something scary like this happens, it acts like a wake-up call, you know? It makes us reassess what's important in life. Our family. Our friends. The people we love.

R.J. Palacio

#38. The people we love are never truly gone.

Cynthia Hand

#39. She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love

Jessica Anya Blau

#40. Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

Lauren DeStefano

#41. When people we love and trust do not have a map of reality that is wide enough to fit our experiences, they often feel afraid for us. In their efforts to limit perceived harm, they end up instead limiting and inhibiting our personal growth.

Therese Rowley

#42. How much do we have to show the people we love? What pieces of my life do I have to lay bare, carve out, and put before her? Is it enough that I have pointed the way to who I am?

Ally Condie

#43. I am so lucky. I used to think trust means "never let you down", but really, it's about love. Family can't always help fix a difficult situation, and everybody makes mistakes. We shouldn't expect perfect. But we can hope that the people we love love us enough to try to make it right.

Miranda Kenneally

#44. We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we're mortal, we know it's going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

J.K. Rowling

#45. We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Donald Miller

#46. They tell us the people we love are 72.8% water-
there is no such thing as crying,
we are only trying to turn ourselves inside out.
This is a noble pursuit.

Lewis Mundt

#47. Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.

Marcel Proust

#48. Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that ... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities.

Dean Koontz

#49. I know,' Jed says. I'm thrown over his shoulder and I can feel how his body shakes and I know that he is crying. For me, for Beth. And I wonder if there was ever a crueler world than this one that forces us to kill the people we love most.

Carrie Ryan

#50. She's young, and will probably move on someday, and get married, and maybe that dude will hate it but her? Her feelings won't ever change. Because people we love die, but the love? It never does. It became eternal the moment he stopped breathing. She'll always love his memory.

J.M. Darhower

#51. How Much Do We Owe People We Love?

Ann Packer

#52. Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."
He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.

Lauren DeStefano

#53. Maybe we're all out there, floating by ourselves in some big black void. But we build connections, you know? We build our own worlds with the people we love.

Hank Moody

#54. It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!

Fred Rogers

#55. she would say that our souls are left scattered all over the place in the people we love, in the lives we touch.

Claire Contreras

#56. We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

Anne Enright

#57. We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.

Mariel Hemingway

#58. Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love.

Jess Walter

#59. The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Anne Carson

#60. There is no hate without fear [...]. Hate is fear crystallized, fear objectified. We hate what threatens our selves, our dreams, our plans, our freedom, our place in the world, our place in the hearts of the people we love. We fear first. Then we hate.

Paulina Simons

#61. Oh here's an idea: let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all.

Jimmy Fallon

#62. As important as finding the Why behind your Purpose and Goals is knowing the Who. We will often do more and endure more for people we love than we will endure for ourselves. Find your Why and your Who and you will endure and overcome anything.

Tom Cunningham

#63. Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

Frederick Lenz

#64. All our lives, we rework the things from our childhood, like feeling good about ourselves, managing our angry feelings, being able to say good-bye to people we love.

Fred Rogers

#65. The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest vulnerability and fear, the better the story.

Janet Fitch

#66. I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

David Geffen

#67. I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

John C. Danforth

#68. People we love do disappoint us (...). We don't have to love them less for it. Maybe we have to love them more.

Carrie Snyder

#69. We all want things in life we can't have. Happens all the time. Jobs we don't get. Houses we don't live in. Health issues we sure as hell don't want. People we love who don't love us back. Not feeling the way someone wants you to feel doesn't make you a bad person.

Sarah Morgan

#70. Crossing the line isn't about forgetting the people we love. It's about not letting our past sorrow steal our future joy.

Deanna Roy

#71. If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

James O'Barr

#72. We think we want all the time in the world with the people we love, but maybe what we need is the opposite. Just a finite amount of time, so we still think the other person is interesting. Maybe we don't need acts two and three. Maybe love is best in act one.

Nicola Yoon

#73. Everything real is in the present moment. Only here can we find happiness and harmony, feel alive and do something that will change our future. Only here can we be with the people we love, enjoy the things we like and see beautiful places.

Lidiya K.

#74. Van, Van, we're only simple, fallible mortals - we aren't saints, we aren't angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

Mercedes Lackey

#75. We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

Russell Banks

#76. We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Donald Miller

#77. If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#78. If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures
now that would have gotten his attention.

Randy Alcorn

#79. Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there's still space for sweet things.

Corey Ann Haydu

#80. So little time. We have so little time on this earth with the people we love.

Tess Gerritsen

#81. Maybe none of us are safe. Not truly. Not even from the people we love. Not even from the people who love us.

Amy Harmon

#82. There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

Nan Fairbrother

#83. I kept seeing Yolanda on the parquet, two men pinning her to the ground, her eyes loaded with hatred and madness combing her hair. I was stormed by her image and my heart could not bear it. We know so little about people. But about the people we love, we know even less.

Nicholas Shakespeare

#84. I think many of my books, including 'Handle with Care,' including 'My Sister's Keeper,' circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It's the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.

Jodi Picoult

#85. Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ... 'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

Alice Hoffman

#86. It's not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what's right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

V.R. Barkowski

#87. I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

Jodi Picoult

#88. Sometimes we have to fight for other people, as well as ourselves - don't we? People we love, I mean. Otherwise why bother living? What's the point if we don't care enough for those we love to fight for them?

Sarah Webb

#89. It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

Lauryn Hill

#90. Let us remember that telling the people we love that we love them and appreciate them is a gift that lasts longer than any shiny bauble you can give.

Genevieve Gerard

#91. When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Brene Brown

#92. We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

Craig Johnson

#93. The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

Tamara Mellon

#94. So often the most meaningful moments in our lives are those that we share with our families. Treasured memories are created by celebrating, sharing and embracing the moments of life with the people we love.

Sandra Magsamen

#95. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.

Gregory David Roberts

#96. We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

Heidi Julavits

#97. There are ways in which we're so alike. We're reckless. We don't think before we act. We'll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw

Cassandra Clare

#98. When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we love, our love becomes judgment - which is toxic. Our fear our daughters will fail leads us to fail them.

Aspen Matis

#99. Look at the things we are capable of in the name of the people we love.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#100. But we all hurt the people we love sometimes. We all let each other down sooner or later. Which is why contrition and forgiveness played a part in any relationship. Trying not to hurt each other, trying not to let each other down in the big things, that was as much as anyone could aim for.

Josh Lanyon