Quotes about love

As nearly as a lover can do, I was seeing the whole of her — a wholeness I would never lose — and knowing her soul.

[Her death] saved our love from perishing in one of the other ways that love could perish. Would I not rather our love go through death than hate?

We had had what we had chosen, not business success or scholarly acclaim but a great love.

Lewis had been his mainstay in this half-year of sounding the depths of his grief. It was he who had said that Davy's death was a severe mercy. A severe mercy — the phrase haunted him: a mercy that was as severe as death, a death that was as merciful as love. For it had been death in love, not death of love. Love can die in many ways, most of them far more terrible than physical death; and if all natural love must die one way or another, Davy's death — he and she in love — was the death that hinted at springtime and rebirth. Sitting there on the rough wood of the bridge, he remembered his absolute knowing — something beyond faith or belief — in the moments after her death, in that suddenly empty room, that she still was. She had not ceased with that last light breath.

She and he would meet again.

“Love is what we say it is,” she said fiercely. “That’s all I know. That’s all anyone knows about it. I’m sorry.”

I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

Do you care for me at all? Or do you only need me?

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.

I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.

Two or three times in my life I discovered love.

Each time it seemed to solve everything.

Each time it solved a great many things

but not everything.

Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and

thoroughly, solved everything.

So every day

I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth

of the ideas of God,one of which was you.

My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.