What Is Love Quotes

I don't know what is love about and I'm not sure I believe in it anyway. ~ Sue Grafton

What is love?

Love is trust. The belief that someone will not leave me for the world,will be there beside me in good and bad times, and will love me,when i would have nothing to offer him. ~ Sachin Garg

What is love but a word?
A feeling roughly concordant to fear?
A fantasy that breaks through
the heartbreak
and endows the defeated with bravery? ~ Tatjana Ostojic

What is love when it's not for dopamine? ~ Saurabh Sharma

What is love but delight in another human being? He delights me daily. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold

I loved him too. But at the same time, who knew what love was exactly? I still didn't have it figured out. I remembered what Dr. Jude had said. The question is not what is love, but is it really love I'm looking for? ~ Melissa Broder

If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will. ~ Rumi

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?"
"That's stupid."
"What is? Love, or my question?"
"I don't know."
"You don't know? You've tried that trick once. What do you suppose it will work better the second time?"
"I don't love her. She bothers me."
"You have just defined the very thing you denied. ~ Rick Yancey

You will be told that the best way to love is in the absence of yourself. But listen to me when I say, that the more treasures within you that you see and you find, the more purely you will be able to love another. We do not love properly when we have no treasures to give; but seeing the cave full of treasures within us, we love as the gods do. ~ C. JoyBell C.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have learned, that in this life, you must always be your own advocate. We yearn for someone to always be on our side, to always trust us, to always believe us and believe in us, regardless of the world and everything in it! But the reality of life proves that the majority of people are only capable of a shallow love. They will only advocate you as much as you advocate yourself. They are admirers who have fallen into adoration of your own publication of yourself and once that image begins to shake and quiver? Their "love" shakes and quivers, too. Very seldom will you find someone who will love the way that you tremble. And yet, this is the only type of love that is ever even true! If you are not loved for the way that you tremble and the way that you come unhinged, then you are not even loved at all. ~ C. JoyBell C.

I don't know what love is.

But if you're sad and it makes me sadder, I know you and I are somewhere close to it. ~ Nitya Prakash

What is love ... Oh baby, don't hurt me ... Don't hurt me no more. ~ Haddaway

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is. ~ Peter De Vries

Love is insanity, apparently. ~ Corey Ann Haydu

What is love really, but two imperfect people staring at their reflection and loving what they see...because someone chose to stand beside them. ~ Bella Vespira

Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last!
What a task
to ask
of anything, or anyone,
yet it is ours,
and not by the century or the year, but by the hours. ~ Mary Oliver

What is love? Love is eating twenty-four ounces of raw fish at four o'clock in the morning. ~ Anthony Bourdain

They say that love is blind, but it's trauma that's blind. Love sees what is. ~ Neil Strauss

What is love? I have asked this question countless times, and the best answer I can get is that it's a "feeling that we feel when we feel a feeling." That's not much of a definition, is it? Love is hard to define. We feel it, but we can't define it. Sometimes we find it hard to express it in words. ~ Cleveland McLeish

Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a long despair ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation. ~ Debasish Mridha

Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, And sweeter too; For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, And cares can make the sweetest love to frown. ~ Robert Greene

And love
Such a silly game we play
Like a summers day in May
What is love
What is love
I just want it to be love ~ Matt White

...What is "love"? Is that... the true form of this agony? Is "love" the name you give to this pain? ~ Hotaru Odagiri

But what is love, and what is life, if you do not let yourself live? ~ Primadonna Angela

What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss. ~ Umberto Eco

You love somebody. Do you? What is love? You think you have everything, but you don't have anything. You have to have hope and spirit. Be an optimist. But can you handle all your human behavior or other's behavior? You don't want to be good, but great. - Director's Note, The Room (2001), by Tommy P. Wiseau ~ Greg Sestero

What is love after but trusting in the unknown. ~ Marty Rubin

What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

A foolish man question: "what is love?" A madman answer: "Love is an omnipresent attribute of human life. Our appetite will always be unfulfilled for love. It is better for us because without it, earth will not rotate, seasons will not change, birds will not sing and life will not exit." What do you think? ~ Santosh Kalwar

What is God? The eternal one life underneath all the forms of life. What is love? To feel the presence of the one life deep within yourself and all creatures; to be it! Therefore, all love is the love of God. ~ Eckhart Tolle

What is love? It is the essence of the unknown and will overwhelm you if you do not realize you are giving too much of yourself."

-Charlena E. Jackson ~ Charlena E. Jackson

What is love worth in this broken world? Nothing!" he spat. "Absolutely nothing. Love won't feed you. Love won't rescue you from starvation. Grow up, Abbey. I didn't raise you to be half-witted and so mentally defective. ~ Dan C. Thompson

What is love but a nostalgia for someones history? Their boyhood haunts and sullen adolescence, their teenage trips cross-country and fights with their fathers and especially their old lovers? ~ Darcey Steinke

But what is love if the heart falls for someone else so fast? Was it real? ~ Marilyn Grey

What is love?
It's not empathy, nor kindness.
Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.
Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.
But love takes just one.
The two get together into one.
They don't separate.
The "I" and the "you" disappear.
I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR.. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the dragon and the witch was in them and not in the world. ~ Robin Sacredfire

What is love? love is you! ~ Sonia Dea Octalia

Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don't really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally ... I suppose it's passion combined with the commitment to value someone else completely above oneself. ~ Angela N. Blount

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved. ~ George W. S. Trow

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely. ~ William Penn

So what is love? It's an unbuttoning of the self. Not an unbuttoning of the clothing covering your sexy self, but the reassurance that, without any camouflage, cover-ups or compromise, you're safe. You're in the presence of another person who would rather be with you than with anyone else. ~ Regina Barreca

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. ~ Sinclair Lewis

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is. ~ Anais Nin

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is. ~ Sharon Salzberg

What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

As he fell asleep he was still thinking of the subject which now occupied his mind all of the time - of life and death.

'Love? What is love?' he mused.

'Love Hinders death. Love is life. Anything at all that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is - everything exists - only because I love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a tiny particle of love, shall return to the universal and eternal source.' These thoughts seemed comforting to him. But they were only thoughts. Something was wanting in them, there was something one-sided and personal, something intellectual. They were not self-evident. And he was prey to the same restlessness and uncertainty. He fell asleep. ~ Leo Tolstoy

So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand)
Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years
Or is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand)
And if it ever was there and it left
Does it mean it was never true
And to exist it must elude
Is that why I think these things of you? ~ Emily Saliers

What is love?, love is you and those who choose to stick with you ~ Miguel El Portugues

I'll tell you what love is. 'Tis
standing arm in arm against the world and knowing together you could rule the country. 'Tis fighting with each other with tooth and nail and never fearing sly or brutal reprisals. 'Tis going to war against the whole world, yet knowing that peace resides in the bed between us. ~ Christina Dodd, Candle In The Window

What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master. ~ Anthony De Mello

Someone once asked me if I've ever been in love. ..
I wasn't sure how to answer her.
Out of all the billions of people in the world, I've had a few mysterious encounters, a few scattered occasions where I met someone who seemed to awaken some unknown part in me. On the rare occasion, I've lost myself in someone. I became so consumed with her that I lost all sense of time and space. I forgot where I was, what I was, who I was, until there was only the two of us, melting together like a soul on fire, and the world around us faded into oblivion, until we were the only thing left in the entire universe.
I felt my skin tingle and my heart grow so full I thought it might explode, and I could not stop thinking about her, and I saw the untapped potential of an alternate future flash before my eyes, all the myriad memories of passion and pain and searing romance all overlapping, layers upon layers, like the stars. Then the world returned and there we were again, two ordinary people full of desperate, trembling longing, with only a dim recollection of the moment we both shared. But the vision of that alternate future still lingered in my mind's eye. In that world between worlds, I could still feel her, could practically taste her on my lips.
Have I ever been in love?
I'd like to think so.
Because if that's not love, then I don't know what is. ~ James Michael Rice

What is Love? Love is God: we can't see them both ~ Samar Sudha

You believe in love, just as a child believes in Santa Claus or a fairy tale."
"What is love then, if not a fairy tale meant for adults? ~ Abhaidev

And what is love, Angel? What is love! he yelled. Is it a pressure inside that makes me want to scream when you do this? he palmed his chest roughly, Is it my body in constant chaos when you're around me? Is it murder in cold blood when I even think of you being with anybody but me! he roared. Or maybe it's not being able to think or speak when your life is in danger, or wanting to spend every second - of every - fucking day with you, wanting to never leave your side. Is that love? Is it, Isadore? He drew closer and hit his fist repeatedly against his chest. Is it pain so hard and heavy that I can't fucking breathe unless I smell you, touch you, taste you? His body heaved as his bright green gaze seared her heart. Because if it is, Angel...he held his lips together and shook his head slowly, then I am....slain with an eternal and violent love for you. ~ Lucian Bane

What is love? Love is when your heart has a raging boner. ~ Oliver Markus Malloy

Because if we don't forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it's not loving our lovers even when they don't deserve it? ~ Fredrik Backman

Sometimes me think what is love,
and then me think love is what last cookie is for.
Me give up the last cookie for you. ~ Mike Pantuso

What is Love compared with holing out before your opponent? ~ P.G. Wodehouse

What is Love? perhaps we may find that love is the ability of someone to give us back to us. Maybe love is someone seeing and remembering, handing us back to ourselves just a trifle better than we had dared to hope or dream... ~ Ray Bradbury

Only Some people feel what is love
Others Just practice sex. ~ Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Windfall"

What is love if it is not an unravelling

against the dark? In the moonless field
between house and river, remember

how you stood with your arms
wide to the night, under every tumid
star, waiting for one to drop. ~ John Glenday

I think there's something to the old saying that women use sex to get love, and men use love to get sex. And love is really just a word we use to describe a close bond, or relationship, between two people. Men have been programmed to want sex, so they do whatever is necessary to be in a relationship with a woman. And a woman is programmed to want the stability and (financial) security of a relationship, so she offers the man what he wants: sex. ~ Oliver Markus

What is love but a second-hand emotion? ~ Tina Turner

Love, love, always love! But what is love? It doesn't mean anything! Love is just a trick invented by men so they don't have to do their own laundry! ~ Joel Dicker

What is love but a pain we choose? ~ Erin Bow

What is love?" Noah said with a wry smile. "If it is having someone on you mind so continuously that you can't eat, sleep or think about anything else, then yes, I love her ~ Lesley Pearse

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. ~ Oscar Wilde

He asked with a stiff smile 'What is love?'
For me,' said Orianda, fumbling for a definition, 'for me it is a compound of anticipation and gratitude. When either of these two ingredients is absent love is dead. ~ A.E. Coppard

We'd spent two years - two fucking years - with a misunderstanding between us. I didn't want to do that again, not even for two hours.

So what am I going to say?

It was a particular place to be, this limbo. It had me asking myself philosophical questions and thinking things like,

What is love?

And, How do you know you're in love?

And, Why does she think she loves me?

And, If this shitty feeling is love, I'm going to be so pissed.

Because if this shitty feeling was love, if this choking, desperate mix of happiness and pain I felt every time I saw her or thought about her was love, if I'd been in love with her this whole fucking time and I'd been lying to myself and lying to her and wasting time, then I deserved a big, fat fucking punch in the face.

"Crap," I said, shaking my head at myself. ~ Penny Reid

Love is the power of a wise man. It is a net for a lover. It is a tool for a clever man. Love is a song for a singer. ~ Debasish Mridha

Someone asks me, What is love?
Do not look for an explanation.
Dissolve into me, and you will know
when it calls. Respond.
Walk out as a lion, as a rose.
Inhale autumn, long for spring. ~ Rumi

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven. ~ William Wharton

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. ~ George Eliot

Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else! ~ Anne Frank

What is love but a prelude to sorrow ... with heartache ahead for your goal. ~ Nina Simone

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself. ~ Sri Chinmoy

I adore good food as I adore all the other pleasant things of life, and because I have that gift I am able to look upon the future with equanimity."
"Why?" asked Alec.
"Because a love for good food is the only thing that remains with man when he grows old. Love? What is love when you are five and fifty and can no longer hide the disgraceful baldness of your pate. Ambition? What is ambition when you have discovered that honours are to the pushing and glory to the vulgar. Finally we must all reach an age when every passion seems vain, every desire not worth the trouble of achieving it; but then there still remain to the man with a good appetite three pleasures each day, his breakfast, his luncheon, and his dinner. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

What is love? Is it a lightning bolt that instantaneously unites two souls in utter infatuation and admiration through the meeting of a simple innocent stare? Or is it a lustful seed that is sown in a dark dingy bar one sweaty summer's night only to be nurtured with romantic rendezvous as it matures into a beautiful flower? Is it a river springing forth, creating lifelong bonds through experiences, heartaches, and missed opportunities? Or is it a thunderstorm that slowly rolls in, climaxing with an awesome display of unbridled passion, only to succumb to its inevitable fade into the distance? I define love as education....
It teaches us to learn from our opportunities, and made the stupidest of decisions for the rightest of reasons. It gives us a hint of what "it" should be and feel like, but then encourages us to think outside the box and develop our own understanding of what "it" could be. Those that choose to embrace and learn from love's educational peaks and valleys are the ones that will eventually find true love, that one in a million. Those that don't are destined to be consumed with the inevitable ring around the rosy of fake I love you's and failed relationships. I have been lucky enough to have some of the most amazing teachers throughout my romantic evolution and it is to them that I dedicate this book. The lessons in life, passion and love they taught me have helped shape who I am today and who I will be tomorrow. To the love that stains my heart, but define ~ Ivan Rusilko

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self. ~ Charles Baudelaire

What is love? Love is what endures in spite of ups and downs and every damn thing in the way."
-ANOTHER HEAVEN- by Annu Subramanian ~ Annu Subramanian

What is love? Love is when one person knows all of your secrets, deepest, darkest, most dreadful secrets of which no one else in the world knows. And yet in the end, that one person does not think any less of you. ~ Aleatha Romig

What Is love? When I was growing up on the streets of Tijuana, I dreamed of being in love. My clothes were old, my pants worn, street water passed through my shoes and socks, but the stars still shined through my soul... ~ Jose N Harris

What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden? ~ Christine Fonseca

What is love if not the gravity of souls? ~ Courtney M. Privett

Do you love me? That laugh of hers. What had it meant? Stupid question. Why ask? You talk too much. Or else: What is love? Or possibly: In your dreams. Then ~ Margaret Atwood

I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain ploughland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name
and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country, is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession ... ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

What is love? Imagine a helium balloon tied down and then you cut the ropes on a windy day. That is love. ~ Chloe Thurlow

And what is love at first sight but recognition? ~ Katherine Rundell

What is love? In English. ~ Karina Halle

What is LOVE?

What is LOVE?
It's something you feel
Or something you appeal
To be complete.

What is LOVE?
Does anybody know?
Or do you let it go
Whenever it shows?

This is my question for you
The one who is searching for true
The one who's afraid been in love
Because life flies like a dove...

It's also a secret for me
I know just the thrills it gives thee
And sometimes the pain and the tears
In which I drown deep all my fears ~ Mirela Stancu

Love is not an emotion. Love is the essence of the Divine that manifests itself as unconditional acceptance of what is. ~ Cloris Kylie

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility. ~ Werner Erhard

What is love ?
a man was dying in pain.he turned and saw his beloved put knife in his back.He just smile and whisper "My love ,are you sure ? your hand did not hurt ~ Mohammed Zaki Ansari

For what is love if not a promise of eternal companionship? ~ Radhika Mundra

We are duplicitous, we're blind- and it is hard to live, trusting only in life: earthly life is a murky translation from the divine original; the general thought is clear but the primordial music is missing in its words ... What are passions? Mistakes in the translation. What is love? A rhyme lost in transmission to our discordant language ... It's time for me to take up the original! ~ Vladimir Nabokov

What is love, for God's sake, if not the most distilled obsession? ~ Tim O'Brien

What is love," she says, "other than putting someone else before you? ~ Emily Henry

What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations? ~ Luke Davies