Top 100 Quotes About What Love Is
#2. Every life is a love story, but few of us know what love is until the story is nearly over.
Karen Maezen Miller
#3. I miss everything about her even though she's right in front of me. Maybe this is what love is.
Helena Hunting
#4. I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.
Emma Thompson
#5. Do you know what love is like, Rose? It's like having a sky, a whole sky racing inside you. Four seasons' worth of sky. One minute you are soaring and then you are all thunderclouds and then you are deep with stars and then you are empty.
Karen Foxlee
#6. Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just ... programmed?
Marissa Meyer
#8. I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.
Leo Buscaglia
#9. I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#10. Isn't that what love is? Being scared, then being brave, because of that one person?
Winna Efendi
#11. Be not afraid to love.
Those who never love, do not know what love is.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running
Alice Hoffman
#13. Love is ... what makes a weak man brave and a king step off his throne. Good times, bad times, easy times, tough times, it comes in an instant and lasts three days after forever. That's what love is.
Mike Oldfield
#14. We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. And do you know what love is? It's when you try to picture your life without someone and you can't.
Aaron Starmer
#16. I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
Jasper Fforde
#17. You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
Chet Baker
#18. wrong, baby. That's what love is - two people fulfilling the needs of the other person, giving the person what they want, what they need,
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#19. Letting out a deep breath, he pressed his forehead down to mine. With his eyes closed, he whispered, "That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected, but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had." - Marcus (Disastrous)
E.L. Montes
#20. Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird ...
Paul McCartney
#21. Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
#22. That is what love is I thought. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Cameron Dokey
#23. I don't know what love is very well either, but I hope it feels like this
Katie McGarry
#24. That's what love is. When you love someone you're responsible for them, and they you.
Christina Henry
#25. Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.
Margaret Atwood
#26. Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#27. People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
Rajneesh
#28. Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
Garry Shandling
#29. In fairy tales," her mother used to say, "no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That's what love is made of.
Jacqueline Sweet
#30. Maybe that's what love is all about. Being humble enough to admit you can't make it on your own. You need a person in order to call a place home. You need love to save you from yourself. You need to love another person so you give a little something every day.
Katie Kacvinsky
#31. I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.
Cathy Maxwell
#32. That's what love is, though, isn't it? You don't stop loving someone just because they disappoint you.
Amy Engel
#33. That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.
Smokey Robinson
#34. I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'
He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.
'Who says so?'
'I do.'
'Then you don't know what love is.
Kate Furnivall
#35. It is only once you see the baffled expression on the face of your enemy when you give his cruel words a warm smile that you'll understand, truly understand, what love is all about.
Vironika Tugaleva
#36. That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected ... but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had.
E.L. Montes
#37. You don't have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.
Joshua Bell
#38. I don't know what love is. Two words I don't like to use is 'love' and 'sorry,' because I'm about hate.
Tommy Lynn Sells
#39. Maybe that's what love is: hoping that one day things will be better.
Joel Dicker
#40. To know, finally, what love is and not be allowed fulfilment ...
Anne Rouen
#41. What love is to the heart, appetite is to the stomach. The stomach is the conductor that leads and livens up the great orchestra of our emotions.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#42. You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.
Thulani Davis
#43. I want to know what love is. I want you to show me," said Tyson, grateful that this planet was allowing a foreigner to share this experience with it.
Leonard Delaney
#44. That's what love is, Georgie. Accidental damage protection.
Rainbow Rowell
#45. I would rather kill her myself than let my father take her as a punishment in my cycle.
Because that's what love is.
Protection.
J.A. Huss
#46. Kenji: Did you really love him...?
Juliette: I think so? I don't know. Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't think I even know what love is.
Tahereh Mafi
#48. We think we know what love is; but, what we do not know is - that love is a true fairy tale.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#49. Talking with Sweetbread, I wonder if that's what love is: the ability to go away and to come back again as if nothing has changed, even though everything has changed.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#50. Callie. (Sin)
Aye. (Callie)
Can you teach me what love is? (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#51. I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn ...
Ian Shoales
#52. My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!
Graham Kendrick
#53. Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.
Dennis Lehane
#54. Getting to communicate with many people through our shows was just great in itself and I felt a lot of energy. I think I learned what love is through our concert.
Minzy
#55. So this is what love is.
It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.
John Allison
#57. Is that what love is supposed to look like? Wanting the best for another person, regardless of what it means for yourself?
Django Wexler
#58. Maybe I don't know what love is, but it isn't this.
Tara MacLean
#59. It all feels so different than it did yesterday. Is it because I'm aware of your feelings now? Or is it something else? Is it that...I know...what love is?
Rei Toma
#60. It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
Jason Mraz
#61. But then, I do not know what love is. I know lust and anger. Despair and satisfaction. But love? No. That is not for me.
Jessica Clare
#62. Is this what love is? This painful, unhinged thing? This polarizing madness that swings from joyous to suffering in the blink of an eye? And if so, why do we let it consume us the way it does? Why do we so willingly surrender to its violent currents and unpredictable winds?
Chelsea Fine
#63. On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.
Tom Cruise
#64. What love is depends on where you are in relation to it. Secure in it, it can feel as mundane and necessary as air - you exist within it, almost unnoticing. Deprived of it, it can feel like an obsession; all consuming - a physical pain.
Jojo Moyes
#65. The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.
Bell Hooks
#66. I may not know what love is," he said, "but, by God, at least I've never gotten drunk by myself.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.
Jodi Picoult
#68. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#69. You say you love me, but you have no idea what love is; you're just mouthing words you've memorized because you think they sound good!
Colleen McCullough
#70. Do you know what love is? It is the most beautiful, comprehensive, divine, pranic energy given to you by God, which you should have experienced. But what did you do? You turned it into mucous and saliva and you call it kisses and hugs and sex.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#71. It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#72. I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.
Benjamin Stone
#73. She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that's what love is - a total contradiction that somehow balances out.
Tammara Webber
#74. I know what love is. When you find the person you are supposed to love, bells ring and fireworks go off in your head and you can't find the words to speak and you think about him all the time. When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into their eyes.
Jodi Picoult
#75. You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
Halle Berry
#76. The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
D.H. Lawrence
#77. The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.
Herbert Ratner
#78. Did that work?" I ask into the quiet night. "Um, yeah. Couldn't you tell?"
I shake my head. "That's not what I meant. I meant, did I show you love?"
"Yes. You and me, this is what love is."
We learned it together.
Lauren Blakely
#79. I know what love is, Mom. I've had love that burns in every fiber of my being, that drives me to be a better person and empowers me through each moment of the day. If you'd ever had something like that, you'd hold on to it with every bit of strength you had.
Richelle Mead
#80. Ts! Ts!" said Kaa, shaking his head to and fro. "I also have known what love is. There are tales I could tell that - "
"That need a clear night when we are all well fed to praise properly," said Bagheera, quickly.
Rudyard Kipling
#81. The reduction of the universe to one single being, the expansion of one single being into God: That is what love is.
Victor Hugo
#82. My arms around her waist tightened a little. I never wanted to let go. "I don't know what love is," I started quietly. "But if I could love anyone ... " I pressed a gentle kiss behind her ear, pulling her close. "I would love you. Very much.
Belle Aurora
#83. Only the soul knows what love is.
Rumi
#84. Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.
Wally Lamb
#85. They don't know what love is. Here they learn what hate is, and I am so sad that they might never know love because hate came first.
A.S. King
#86. She'll take what she can get and be happy about it, because love isn't about convenience and frozen yogurt and real life. That isn't what love is about.
Kelly Link
#87. You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity.
Rumi
#88. Someone like my mum would say, Oh, you're just a kid, you don't know what love is.But I didn't think of anything else apart from being with Alicia, and the only time I felt like I was where I wanted to be was when I was with her. I mean, that may as well be love, mightn't it?
Nick Hornby
#89. I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.
Kevin DeYoung
#91. Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
Wally Lamb
#92. From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.
Francis George
#93. But you keep the promise anyway. That's What love is. Keeping the promise anyway
John Green
#94. When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?
Jodi Picoult
#95. I'm afraid she'll look at him in some
way that she doesn't look at me. I'm afraid that when I go to bed at night I'll still be wondering. I'm always afraid. Is that what love is
fear?
Jerry Spinelli
#96. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
Giannina Braschi
#97. If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.
Dorothy Koomson
#99. But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
Jodi Picoult
#100. Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.
Olga Kurylenko
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