Truly Loved Quotes

#1. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

Sharon Salzberg

#2. Millie told me once that the ability to devastate is what makes a song beautiful. Maybe that's what makes life beautiful too. The ability to devastate. Maybe that's how we know we've lived. How we know we've truly loved.

Amy Harmon

#3. If I truly loved him, she said, I would let him go.
I wish I loved him enough.

Michelle Hodkin

#4. If they truly loved you they won't devalue you.

Shannon L. Alder

#5. The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly loved.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. Cuz I can count on one hand the men who've loved me, not in the Biblical sense - I don't have enough digits for that - but who have truly loved me.

Shannon Celebi

#7. I met Donald Trump in '85. I ran into him several times throughout the years. We knew we had this connection, but it wasn't appropriate timing. So we'd spend a lot of time on the telephone. By '88, I knew I truly loved this guy.

Marla Maples

#8. Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding
To a bride with a paper ring
And half of my heart is the part of a man
Who's never truly loved anything

John Mayer

#9. It was a whisper in the soul, a lump in the throat, and an echo in the deep and hidden places of the heart. It was the hope that we are loved, truly loved, and that we are known. It was what I wanted more than anything.

Donna VanLiere

#10. I truly loved her for the short period time that we had been together. I felt as if she was part of my destiny. To see that destiny leave was the most unexplainable feeling. It was also the worst.

Shannon A. Thompson

#11. Matteo lived inside her like a memory that paradoxically stopped the pain and which she could never get enough of ... because there was, and never would be, anything that was like him. Wherever she went, whatever she did, he was the only thing she truly loved, and which she sadly no longer had.

Llarjme

#12. The memory of anyone one had truly loved stayed distinct always and with a special fragrance, quite unaffected by the years. And the memory of one's deepest friendships had a touch of the same magic. But

C.P. Snow

#13. True love, by definition, means "someone that is truly loved". But true love must be reciprocated, or it is only excrutiatingly unbearable and devistating - a never-ending lonely night in an empty room.

A.M. Hudson

#14. This miserable, awful woman still had no idea what it meant to be truly beautiful, or truly loved.

Marissa Meyer

#15. I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

Jill Scott

#16. I deserved to be with a man that truly loved me, no matter how different I was. I deserved to be with a man who saw past all of my faults, no matter how many I had. But most of all, I deserved to be with a man that would submerge himself as far into my darkness as I would into his.

Yolanda Olson

#17. He was smiling that smile I truly loved.

Heather Fraser Brainerd

#18. Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.

Jarrid Wilson

#19. This is the most effective way: let the growing soul look at life with the question: 'What have you truly loved? What has drawn you upward, mastered and blessed you?

John Armstrong

#20. These lives we lived were a gift and precious and so short. I wanted to spend my time authentically, surrounded by people I truly loved.

Rachel Higginson

#21. When I was a child I truly loved:
Unthinking love as calm and deep
As the North Sea. But I have lived,
And now I do not sleep.

John Gardner

#22. The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

Thomas Moore

#23. If you let yourself be truly seen, then you can be truly loved.

SARK

#24. There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had never truly loved or hated, for she had never seen the world she had been used to living in closely enough for it to evoke passion in her.

Robin McKinley

#25. You have not truly loved, until you have learned to love yourself.

Treka L. House

#26. But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Lafcadio Hearn

#27. For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss.

Chris Jirika

#28. And what it meant was we would be together for many more Christmas's because we truly loved each other, heart to heart. Not based on how we looked or how some of the things we do appear stupid to the other person but how we cared for each other. Deep down in our core.

E.Z. Friedel

#29. It was too good to be true, too sweet to be reality for too long, so when someone set out to destroy his belief in her, it made more sense to doubt her than to believe that she had truly loved him in the first place.

Amy Harmon

#30. If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

Gautama Buddha

#31. But if a man truly loved you, he would see the beauty that lies much deeper than those scars.

Sarah Holman

#32. I truly loved you, but now I'm walking away

Jonny Lang

#33. Perhaps the only things he truly loved were his images - those he'd filmed, or then again, perhaps only those he had yet to film.

Han Kang

#34. You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

Newt Gingrich

#35. Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

Neale Donald Walsch

#36. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Timothy Keller

#37. If I truly loved a man, his fortune or lack of one would not make any difference to me. In any case, we cannot always choose with whom we fall in love. When it happens, it is not something we can just dismiss on a whim or tell to go away. There is no rhyme nor reason in matters of the heart.

Jane Odiwe

#38. She didn't want Jack to be with her only because he couldn't be with the person he truly loved.

Melissa De La Cruz

#39. The things she truly loved,
& only those things,
were like a beautiful
metronome
of her heart
as was she,
only for them,
the same
rhythm.

Cheri Bauer

#40. How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the closeness of it, had produced in them love s illusion. And yet
on the other hand
what was love if it wasn't this instinct she felt ...

David Guterson

#41. You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

Nicholas Sparks

#42. I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.

Warsan Shire

#43. When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of such a love is the pain of its loss. I can only feel such pain today because until yesterday I knew that love.

Salman Rushdie

#44. I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#45. I truly loved doing the videos, but it has been hard hearing all the time that you're just the Aerosmith chick.

Alicia Silverstone

#46. And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you bind yourself to a master. Bound is bound. If your master really loved you, he would not demand your devotion. He would set you free
from himself, first of all.

Tom Robbins

#47. I want to be loved, honestly and truly loved, for who I am. And I want to love a woman with all my heart for all my life. I want to ache for her mind, for her body, for her companionship.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#48. The only way to have it all and feel truly loved is by knowing who your soul is. You are loved entirely by God

Kevin Hunter

#49. Until I truly loved, I was alone.

Caroline Norton

#50. Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: 'What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#51. The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved

Tara Brach

#52. I'm a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.

Clara Mamet

#53. I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

Sam Elliott

#54. But then I found out that the poem she truly loved was the other one. She chose her own way. And I fell even more deeply in love with her.

Ally Condie

#55. If you fall in love with 2 people at once choose the second one because if you truly loved the first one you never would have fell in love with the second one

Johnny Depp

#56. Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.

Whitney Otto

#57. This ghost of a mother had begun to ask him questions about who he was and who he truly loved. Was he capable of love?

Hanif Kureishi

#58. To be loved by a man, truly loved, made a woman feel as if she could burst. Of course, Lia was strong and could face the world on her own, but it involved a deeper strength, she felt, to give yourself to another. To trust someone with your heart was a gift ...

Melody Anne

#59. Your hug should be more than an embrace of affection. It represents her safety and security. It should make her feel truly loved.

Tony Curl

#60. There are enough hours in a day to know that you are truly loved."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#61. No one had ever taught him - and he had never imagined the necessity of learning - how to betray the one person whom you truly cared for in life. The only person who genuinely loved you. How to break that person's heart, whether it be tomorrow, or five years or ten years in the future.

Eloisa James

#62. So I return to the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" The answer comes easy: I'd fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I'd fly higher.

Kamal Ravikant

#63. Many times in the Old Testament, God refers to human beings as His beloved. But when God called Jesus His beloved, Jesus did something truly remarkable: He believed Him. And He lived every moment of His life fully convinced of His identity.

Jonathan Martin

#64. Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

Tessa Dare

#65. I have to tell you it was the first time even after all these years of expecting my own death that i truly knew what it meant to die because with you gone there was nothing left for me to live for.

Julia Quinn

#66. Now I was, as they said, become godly; now I was become a right honest man. But oh! when I understood these were their words and opinions of me, it pleased me mighty well. For, though as yet I was nothing but a poor painted hypocrite, yet, I loved to be talked of as one that was truly godly.

John Bunyan

#67. Think about it. When the end comes, will you be buried in the arms of the one you love? Of the one who knew you your whole life, who loved you your whole life? The only person who could really and truly love you like you needed to be loved? I hope so.

James Patterson

#68. The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Nick Cannon

#69. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. And because he loved her, it wouldn't matter that she wasn't twenty-two or thirty or forty anymore. In his eyes she was truly the most beautiful woman in the world. The thought brought tears to Parker's eyes. A sucker for love indeed.

Kristan Higgins

#71. It hit her like a loved one turning his back while she was falling, like some great bond that wasn't simply taken away but never truly existed.

Hugh Howey

#72. My wife and I are like twins and that is a great and a terrible thing for a marriage. It makes for the most comfortable thing in the world to be truly known and loved, but also makes for a lot of conflict and that's how we roll in my house.

Mark Duplass

#73. How truly blessed we shall be if at the price of even very great sacrifices we shall have made God known and loved by one more soul!

Rose Philippine Duchesne

#74. A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

Marvin J. Ashton

#75. We would be hunted by the humans and the Luxen.
And if they thought exposing the truth to the world was the most extreme thing I could do to protect those I loved, they hadn't seen anything yet.
THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS TRULY CAPABLE OF.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#76. When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#77. I have loved and i have lost and im starting to believe; its ok. Sometimes what we "think" is best for us, is only the beginning of what is truly "meant" for us. And if i have loved, so deeply the wrong heart; i am content in knowing the greatest love i will ever experience, hasnt even begun yet.

Nikki Rowe

#78. No one has ever loved me
As deeply as you.
No one has truly shown me
What love could be like until now:
Not pretty or safe or easy
But more than I ever knew.
Love within reason -
That isn't love.
And I've learned that from you..

Stephen Sondheim

#79. [I]f you are truly a man, sure of yourself and confident of your strength, you may taste of life without fear and without reserve; you may be sad or joyous, deceived or respected; but be sure you are loved, for what matters the rest?

Alfred De Musset

#80. I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#81. No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

Theophile Gautier

#82. If one person has loved another truly and wholly, then it is more than love that collapses when one side of the indissoluble partnership turns away with a tearful goodbye.

Doris Lessing

#83. May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are.

Jodi Livon

#84. Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death. Allowing this into your consciousness will not keep you from suffering, but it will help you survive the next day.

Cheryl Strayed

#85. I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait ... in the shades.

Darren Shan

#86. If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#87. You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

J.K. Rowling

#88. Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor. I loved the idea of captivating an audience and moving them truly through performance, but more importantly being recognized and heavily lauded for that talent.

Jack Gleeson

#89. I can't remember a day when I didn't love you. I loved you the day I practically knocked you out with a snowball. I loved you when I flattened the tires on your bike so I could walk you home.. So don't tell me I don't love you- Just don't tell me that.

Rachel Gibson

#90. Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#91. If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this?

Kamal Ravikant

#92. I have truly known what it means for a writer to feel loved.

Arundhati Roy

#93. You can't truly hate someone until you've cared about them. Until you've loved them.

Kirsten Hubbard

#94. Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

H. Burke Peterson

#95. I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#96. Nothing works well if a child's love needs are not met. Only the child who feels genuinely loved and cared for can do her best. You may truly love your child, but unless she feels it - unless you speak the love language that communicates to her your love - she will not feel loved. Filling the

Gary Chapman

#97. Here, loved be God, is all well and truly determined for to resist the malice of him that had best cause to be true, the Duke of Buckingham, the most untrue creature living; whom, with God's grace, we shall not be long till that we will be in that parts and subdue his malice.

Richard III Of England

#98. So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment.

Kamal Ravikant

#99. For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands ... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us ...

Pope John Paul II

#100. That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds
not to have been loved just as one truly was
cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Alice Miller